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With Al Senter as chair, Bath described the astonishing story of Tommy Macpherson's very full life.
The e-book, along with content-containing apps and an increasing range of electronic and digital methods of…
Peter Hart is the Oral Historian at the Imperial War Museum and an internationally recognised expert on…
On the evening of Sunday 14th August, the small Peppers Theatre stage was packed with poets – not the usual…
The Crimean War is somehow imagined in the British Isles to be a minor conflict against Russia and of no…
T C Boyle cuts a figure that is more rock star than Distinguished Professor – tall, extravagantly quiffed and…
As the Festival Season begins it is sometimes easy to forget just how dependent Edinburgh is on its many fine…
I had the good fortune a few years ago to run into JK Rowling while she was writing the final instalment of…
The Festival of Politics 2011, which runs from 20 - 27 August, presents a diverse programme of events…
An all-female shortlist for the fourth annual Edwin Morgan Poetry Competition has been announced. Five poems…
Late literary nights are set to last a little bit longer this August with the return of Unbound to the…
The Edinburgh International Book Festival is reporting an unprecedented demand for tickets with over 300,000…
The recently appointed Children’s Laureate Julia Donaldson is this year's Guest Selector at the Edinburgh…
The Edinburgh International Book Festival 2011 will see 17 days of book readings, discussions, and events…
The I-Spy series of entertaining, educational books to keep children amused on holiday and day trips was…
This grand old building has retained much of its original character, but there is much at library that has…
Tom McGrath, playwright, poet, translator and musician, died in April 2009 and tonight’s event comprised a…
Queuing to borrow a book should become a thing of the past when self service kiosks are installed in…
Sauniere Society Writers Conference is being held at one of Scotland's great hidden jewels (near Edinburgh,…
Three Calderwood Press writers, Anne Connelly, Anna Dickie and Irene Brown are reading from their work. Free…