Edinburgh Book Festival
Paddy Ashdown took to the stage at the Edinburgh International Book Festival for the second time in twenty…
Maggie O’Farrell is a remarkable novelist with a fresh, distinctive voice and visual imagination. She…
Ruth Dudley Edwards appeared at the Edinburgh International Book Festival to promote ‘The Seven; The Lives…
What a splendid event with Judy Murray. Her two sons, Andy and Jamie, would have been very proud of her! It…
This year, the Edinburgh International Book Festival has been privileged to welcome two of the United States…
Jonathan Dimbleby had Magnus Linklater in the chair for this Experian event looking at 'Where World War Two…
These two speakers, both acknowledged experts on their subjects, gave a succinct analysis of the current…
Tax may not sound like the most exciting subject but the Studio Theatre was packed with around 275 of us to…
There was again an absolutely full house for this British Academy sponsored event featuring Sir Tom Devine,…
The Edinburgh International Book Festival, like its sister happenings throughout August, throws up the…
Some of the best art is scarcely noted.
The Speigeltent at the Edinburgh International Book Festival was near stowed for what promised to be a lively…
Bidisha introduced Ed Vulliamy, an author who has written for The Guardian and Amnesty International, whose…
O'Hagan
made a confession at his London Review of Books event held on Sunday 12 August (8.30pm). After…
Professor Paul Broda was introduced by Tam Dalyell who said that it must be unique to have two fathers who…
The appearance of Mervyn King, former Governor of the Bank of England, produced a predictably very…
This reviewer’s previous incarnation as the Stravaigin Reporter for the organisation Scots Tung, has allowed…
Author and journalist Magnus Linklater was in the Chair, to introduce Max Hastings as someone who has a…
Panic among the publishers? Whinging writers? Wither the book as we know it?
The Bosco Theatre is like a vintage circus tent, where writers, not animals and clowns, will entertain and…