Edinburgh Book Festival
Anna Day, founder and director of the Dundee Literary Festival introduced this event entitled Killer Queen -…
Professors Murray Pittock and Christopher Whatley have studied different aspects of Scottish historical…
Francesca Martinez and Mark Thomas really ought to consider forming a double act, on the strength of their…
Douglas Newton and David Olusoga came together with Al Senter, in the Chair, to look at the other side of the…
The theme of this year’s Edinburgh Book Festival is summed up by the phrase ”Let’s Talk” illustrated with…
Sadly a monsoon-like downpour reduced the size of the audience for Hilary Roberts, but those who braved the…
An appearance by Nicholas Parsons is always a highlight of the Edinburgh International Book Festival and this…
In Charles Ferguson's excellent documentary Inside Job, Nouriel Roubini (famously dubbed Dr Doom for his…
This event, offered by Publishing Scotland, and chaired by Jenny Brown, attempted to look at the…
This was quite simply pure entertainment and an hour of brilliant humour!
No subject could be more topical than looking at the Middle East today and all the problems that it faces.…
Paddy Ashdown is well known to Edinburgh Book Festival audiences, so Peter Gutteridge was able to give him…
Anyone passing by the Baillie Gifford Main Tent at the Book Festival on Thursday lunchtime could be forgiven…
‘Embattled’ might seem an odd choice of word to describe Henry McLeish, former First Minister and David…
Mikhail Lermontov (1814-41) was remarkably proud of his Scottish ancestry, traceable to the Learmonths of…
The title of the event, “First New Novel for Seven Years” certainly drew a huge appreciative audience to the…
Late in the seventeenth century, an as yet independent Scotland sought to catch up in the fast-paced race for…
Niall Campbell has won the inaugural Edwin Morgan Poetry Award for Scottish poets aged 30 or under, the…
Alistair Moffat’s Bannockburn: The Battle for a Nation appears in the event’s 700th anniversary year.
That Neil Gunn and Maurice Walsh were close friends is a matter of record, attested by the 30 or so letters…