Books

Edinburgh and Scotland books

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The sight of the Inverbeg Recycling Unit and its hard-hatted and fluorescent-jacketed workers roaming the…
A hearty celebration of books nestled in Edinburgh's West Port community.
A book by a North-east novelist, which was once banned in her home town, is set to tour Scotland
Whither the future? A question many of us ask, especially when we’ve no idea what the answer may be.
There was a packed house for the Baillie Gifford event with hostage survivor Ingrid Betancourt and Kirsty…
Sheena McDonald introduced Malloch-Brown as someone with huge experience of international affairs having…
The Edinburgh International Book Festival, like its sister happenings throughout August, throws up the…
The worldwide launch of "The Cat's Table" by Michael Ondaatje was supported by the Hawthornden Literary…
There are few speakers who attend the Edinburgh Book Festival who can command an audience the way Roy…
The Morton Fraser Event, billed as "a man whose love of theatre and actors knows no bounds", featured Simon…
This was an introduction to the two authors as a part of the Newton First Book Award and was chaired by…
Sometimes one comes across something that seems a little slight at first, that then proves to be more durable…
The session ("Telling Tales: The Vital Important of Stories") was chaired by Claire Armistead, who caught our…
I finally managed to catch Sandy McCall Smith on Friday, 19th August having tried to book a session with him…
Whether or not the demise of the book as we’ve known it is in sight, it’s clear there are a lot of…
The Speigeltent at the Edinburgh International Book Festival was near stowed for what promised to be a lively…
BBC reporter Peter Taylor's new book "Talking to Terrorists" sets out what it was like to come face to face…
If he were still among us, Czeslaw Milosz would have celebrated his hundredth birthday this year.
With a title like this and her recent wide appeal as a contestant in "Strictly Come Dancing" this show was…