Edinburgh Book Festival

Iain Overton’s book ā€˜Gun, Baby, Gun’ investigates one of the most disturbing and frequently overlooked crisis…
Chef Mark Greenaway strides on to the platform as if ready to give us a cookery demonstration but he is here…
Delving into the intimate lives of real women has taken Paula McLain and Priya Parmar on extensive travel…
"Guilt," a late friend of this reviewer's observed, "is a useless emotion." Except perhaps insofar as it…
Three acknowledged experts on China took a capacity audience at the Edinburgh Book Festival's Studio Theatre…
There are not too many occasions when the speaker is already on stage as the audience come in.
As the second anniversary of the Maidan protests which ousted the Yanukovich-led government in Ukraine…
The theme of this year’s Edinburgh Book Festival is summed up by the phrase ā€Let’s Talkā€ illustrated with…
This was the Scottish Power Event, chaired by Nick Barley, the Director of the Edinburgh International Book…
Even in douce Edinburgh, it is still possible to encounter those with a more than slight sympathy for far…
Wedged among a bevy of blue rinses, it was tempting to speculate how many had turned out on yet another…
An evening with Alexander McCall Smith is always a delight and this event, chaired by Jamie Jauncey and…
Nick Davies is an impressive individual who has rightly been named as the Journalist of the Year and also…
Andrew Franklin in the Chair introduced author Antony Beevor as someone who had become one of the leading…
Jeremy Paxman was at his absolute best for this Open University event which was entitled, "War. Germany.
Alan Johnson received a very warm welcome when he came into a full Baillie Gifford Main Theatre with Ruth…
This event was chaired by Catriona Murray in the RBS Garden Theatre and it attracted just over thirty people…
An appearance by Nicholas Parsons is always a highlight of the Edinburgh International Book Festival and this…
This session entitled, "Searching for Mary Queen of Scots" drew a full house to the Scottish Power Studio.
"Stories in Stone" is the title of a series of podcasts to be launched by Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature…