Edinburgh Book Festival
Archaeologist and author Max Adams is at the Edinburgh International Book Festival to promote his most recent…
First launched in 1972, the annual Scottish Book Awards have developed into a major prize for writers…
One of the most respected economic commentators of our times, Joseph Stiglitz made a clearly welcome return…
Jeremy Paxman was introduced by his fellow BBC colleague, Allan Little, for this Open University Event which…
T C Boyle cuts a figure that is more rock star than Distinguished Professor – tall, extravagantly quiffed and…
On the evening of Sunday 14th August, the small Peppers Theatre stage was packed with poets – not…
The Morton Fraser Event, billed as "a man whose love of theatre and actors knows no bounds", featured Simon…
This reviewer’s previous incarnation as the Stravaigin Reporter for the organisation Scots Tung, has allowed…
The Edinburgh International Book Festival, like its sister happenings throughout August, throws up the…
David Mitchell started by explaining that he was the author and not the comedian!
This special event, in the Charlotte Square Garden Spiegeltent, was preceded by an excellent afternoon with…
Author and journalist Magnus Linklater was in the Chair, to introduce Max Hastings as someone who has a…
Stefan Collini is a very intelligent and articulate speaker, as one might reasonably expect of someone…
Ruth Wishart had a quick barbed comment when she saw that Jeremy Paxman had brought in a glass of wine: "…
The private lives and published work of ten of the best known 20th century women writers was the topic of…
Amartya Sen wished to reassure us he was not ‘The Mother Theresa of Economics’.
With a title like this and her recent wide appeal as a contestant in "Strictly Come Dancing" this show was…
Paddy Ashdown spoke at the Baker Tilly Event which was chaired by the BBC "Today" presenter James Naughtie.
This was bound to be an interesting event when Ruth Wishart who was in the Chair found that she had left her…
What could some artsy-fartsy novelist possibly know about banking? – One can almost hear the roars from the…