Edinburgh Book Festival
With over a week of the Edinburgh International Book Festival behind us I feel like it’s time to reflect.
Superlatives are weak and ineffective when in presence of a true master in his field: the newspaper comic…
Birmingham is famous for its ‘Curry Mile’ but cosmopolitan as that city is, Bradford continues to be…
This Edinburgh International Book Festival event was chaired by, and part of a series of events chosen by,…
This event with young Welsh poet Owen Sheers was most entertaining and enlightening. His new book is based…
One of the most respected economic commentators of our times, Joseph Stiglitz made a clearly welcome return…
David Mitchell’s got it. He has moved from relative obscurity among mainstream book readers to being one of…
Maggie O’Farrell is a remarkable novelist with a fresh, distinctive voice and visual imagination. She has…
Described as one of Scotland’s beloved literary sons and as the “Sage of North Queensferry”, Iain Banks has…
Best known to the general public for his charming, flamboyant and ultimately moving performance as Gareth in…
"The Wealth of Nations" has never been out of publication since it first appeared some two hundred and thirty…
Panic among the publishers? Whinging writers? Wither the book as we know it?
The Peppers Theatre tent in Charlotte Square Garden isn’t the largest venue at the Edinburgh International…
The present Shadow Chancellor had a suitably large audience in the Main Theatre of the Edinburgh…
This morning there was a less-than-bloody pitched battle between Richard Holloway, Richard Harries and author…
Considering that the financial success or failure of any show at Edinburgh's Festival Fringe can depend…
A.A. Milne’s belovèd children’s classic, Winnie- the- Pooh, was written in 1926 and has since been translated…
Hairdresser Vidal Sassoon, Nobel Laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz, poet Seamus Heaney, and Doonesbury…
For the final Fine Fiction writer's event at the Edinburgh Book Festival it was the award winning, Edinburgh-…
Two crime thriller writers were brought together for this discussion on their latest novels, The Stranger…