Edinburgh Book Festival
Alexander McCall Smith is a literary enigma.
“Mary Livingstone was not only neglected by her husband David but airbrushed out of history.”
James Naughtie welcomed Lady Antonia Fraser by saying that the one thing that leaps out of her new historical…
Iain Macwhirter’s ‘Road to Referendum’, a potted history of how we got to where we are, is now in paperback,…
Copyright has always been a difficult area, but for some a highly profitable one – a lawyer friend of this…
Chef Mark Greenaway strides on to the platform as if ready to give us a cookery demonstration but he is here…
‘What ish my nation?’ is Captain Fluellen’s rhetorical demand in Shakespeare’s ‘Henry V’, his response being…
This event had the added enticement of free morning coffee (courtesy of Prestige Venues), which we could…
On the first wet evening in several weeks, a thunderstorm cracked the skies just as Maggie O’Farrell began to…
For the Frederick Hood Memorial Event which was sponsored by Walter Scott and Partners Ltd, Professor Susan…
This was The Open University Event, with the person who was identified as 'The Most Dangerous Woman in…
The 2019 Edinburgh International Book Festival launched the “most international programme in its history”…
The Fringe and the Edinburgh International Festival are already in full swing and veterans of thrifty…
We're around about the half-way mark of the Edinburgh Fringe (if you include preview dates), and I thought it…
Delegates to the Edinburgh International Book Festival bring their fair share of mysteries: whether it be the…
This morning there was a less-than-bloody pitched battle between Richard Holloway, Richard Harries and author…
With over a week of the Edinburgh International Book Festival behind us I feel like it’s time to reflect.
As tickets go on sale, a quick look at some of the highlights of the Edinburgh Book Festival which in 2012…
This year, the charity-run initiative Death on the Fringe, that aims to get us talking about the one thing…
Dilip Hiro’s ‘The Longest August; The Unflinching Rivalry of India and Pakistan’ examines one of the most…