Books

Edinburgh and Scotland books

Discover our latest temporary exhibition, featuring everything from intestinal worms and bezoar stones to m
The Consulate General of Ireland in Edinburgh is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the publication of Ja
P.J. Harvey, Jarvis Cocker, Irvine Welsh, Maggie O’Farrell, Julia Donaldson, and Scotland’s First Minister…
A book festival with a focus on Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror genres.
After Covid-19 struck in 2020, the Edinburgh Internati
Geek out at the Edinburgh Comic Con back for another year at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre.
The Festival of Politics is a populist, accessible festival set in the Scottish parliament at Holyrood. The…
From Nordic Noir to Tartan Noir, crime writing is a brutal, grisly business across Scandinavia and Scotland
The internationally best selling novelist, Alexander McCall Smith hardly needs to be introduced, begins Gav
Journalist, critic and broadcaster, Mariella Frostrup was born in Norway, brought up in Ireland and now liv
2019 marks the centenary of the inaugural James Tait Black Prizes founded by Janet Tait Black née Coats, in
“Once across the Equator and into the South East trade winds ...
The director and staff at the EIBF should be congratulated on the creative pairing of these two writers who
This sell out event in the New York Times Theatre, Kate Atkinson was in conversation with Lee Randall.
Two characters, separated by time and space meet for the first time in the world-wide premiere of Alice
“Maker, ye maun sing them… Tomorrow, songs Will flow free again, and new voices Be borne on the carrying…
The Edinburgh Book Festival was launched in 1983, the "biggest festival of the written word in the world".
The 2019 Edinburgh International Book Festival launched the “most international programme in its history”…
Theoretical physicist and broadcaster Prof Jim Al-Khalili is in conversation about his debut novel, Sunfall,…