Edinburgh Book Festival
Andrew Franklin introduced David Reynolds as a distinguished historian and the Professor of History at…
Will Self’s hour-long chat at the Edinburgh International Book Festival was characteristically lucid, witty,…
Kirsty Wark is a highly respected television presenter, best known for fronting the BBC 2 current affairs…
Jenny Brown, as the founder and first Director of the Edinburgh Book Festival (as it was known before being…
In his introduction Andrew Kelly mentioned that David Crane is the Director of Bristol 2014, remembering the…
Iain Macwhirter’s ‘Road to Referendum’, a potted history of how we got to where we are, is now in paperback,…
This event was chaired by Catriona Murray in the RBS Garden Theatre and it attracted just over thirty people…
Jura Unbound is the free late evening series of shows at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
“Mary Livingstone was not only neglected by her husband David but airbrushed out of history.”
On the first wet evening in several weeks, a thunderstorm cracked the skies just as Maggie O’Farrell began to…
It is now fifty years since the tragic death of Sylvia Plath who committed suicide aged just 30.
This event, the final in a series at the Edinburgh International Book Festival (and almost the final one of…
A great deal of ink and opinion has thus far characterised the debate on the 2014 referendum. One book, at…
How did they get away with it? The outrage among the audience at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on…
Who runs Iran? Is its military still powerful? What is the legacy of the 1979 revolution that produced an…
James Naughtie welcomed Lady Antonia Fraser by saying that the one thing that leaps out of her new historical…
Serena Scott began by asking Rhidan Brook to describe the background to his book, "The Aftermath".
This event proved one of the highlights of the 2013 Edinburgh International Book Festival thus far, certainly…
Kate Mosse attracted a packed audience for the introduction to her new novel about female French Resistence…
With an exciting title and two BBC reporters this promised to be an entertaining session.