Edinburgh Book Festival

The title of Iain Macwhirter’s event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival - ā€˜Scotland’s Democratic…
Maggie O’Farrell is a remarkable novelist with a fresh, distinctive voice and visual imagination. She…
The session with Anjan Sundaram with Jenny Niven in the Chair deserved to be better attended - the…
On the evening of Sunday 14th August, the small Peppers Theatre stage was packed with poets – not…
Sheena McDonald introduced Malloch-Brown as someone with huge experience of international affairs having…
This event proved one of the most stimulating and thought provoking this reviewer has thus far attended at…
Joe Simpson, the author of Touching the Void was introduced by Alan Morrison, the Group Arts Editor of The…
Roy Hattersley appeared with a beard which he assured the audience was not to be seen as being in sympathy…
This year, the Edinburgh International Book Festival has been privileged to welcome two of the United States…
This Edinburgh International Book Festival event was chaired by, and part of a series of events chosen by,…
The Morton Fraser Event, billed as "a man whose love of theatre and actors knows no bounds", featured Simon…
Paddy Ashdown took to the stage at the Edinburgh International Book Festival for the second time in twenty…
Described as one of Scotland’s beloved literary sons and as the ā€œSage of North Queensferryā€, Iain Banks has…
This session with Frances Wilson was chaired by Sheena McDonald who immediately discovered that very few…
Celebrated comic book author Alan Moore makes an appearance at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
This was bound to be an interesting event when Ruth Wishart who was in the Chair found that she had left her…
As part of the Muriel Spark 100 celebrations, Alan Taylor, literary critic, writer and close friend of the…
The session ("Telling Tales: The Vital Important of Stories") was chaired by Claire Armistead, who caught our…
On balance, Adam Phillips may have one of the sharpest, penetrating and prescient minds in Britain today.
There was a packed house for the Baillie Gifford event with hostage survivor Ingrid Betancourt and Kirsty…