Books

Edinburgh and Scotland books

The Edinburgh Bookshop will be hosting Ronan Ryan for a reading of his debut novel, The Fractured Life of…
This year is the 50th anniversary of the release of the ground-breaking Sgt.
Free music, spoken word and comedy, inspired by Robert Burns, is coming to one of Edinburgh’s best known New…
The annual J M Barrie Award is presented by Action for Children’s Arts and is given to a children’s arts…
‘Doctor Johnson Goes to Scotland’ is a fairly self-explanatory piece of titling, and, as they say, it does…
Margaret Atwood is one of the acclaimed novelists taking part in the Hogarth Shakespeare project, a series of…
Paul Mason, appearing at the Edinburgh International Book Festival to promote the paperback edition of his…
Although not quite as common a surname in Scotland as it once was, Flemings can still be found in telephone…
Melvyn Bragg was introduced to the audience as someone who was well known as a broadcaster - working both for…
Alan Taylor has a long history as a journalist with The Scotsman, where he rose to be the deputy and then…
Jonathan Dimbleby had Magnus Linklater in the chair for this Experian event looking at 'Where World War Two…
Political scientist Matthew Goodwin introduced his book "UKIP" by explaining that the book really came about…