Books
Edinburgh and Scotland books
Food of Ghosts is being launched on the 8th November, 2012 at Blackwell’s Book Shop, Edinburgh (the event is…
Ben Judah is the author of "Fragile Empire: How Russia Fell In And Out Of Love With Vladimir Putin", to be…
Reading from the new poetry book by Gordon Peters -- By Leaves Entwined.
The poems are lyrics - and rants -…
Eric Lomax, who wrote movingly about his experiences of being tortured as a Japanese POW and his subsequent…
First Reading of a new play about the life of Belle Stewart, a cultural icon, and Scottish Traditional…
These two speakers, both acknowledged experts on their subjects, gave a succinct analysis of the current…
Kate Summerscale is renowned for her non fiction “thriller”, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (one of the…
This was an imaginative and inspirational double act - an international best selling crime writer in…
The first debate on ‘Would Culture Lose its Shine in an Independent Scotland?’ promised we
John McCarthy was introduced by Allan Little for this inaugural Frederick Hood Memorial Lecture. It was also…
Jonathan Steele is a journalist with The Guardian and has been reporting on Afghanistan since 1981.
Saul David seems to have undergone an alarming make-over since the earlier days of his writing career.
Professor Paul Broda was introduced by Tam Dalyell who said that it must be unique to have two fathers who…
Peter Gutteridge took the stage alone to introduce Jeremy Vine who then bounded on to the platform from the…
The Edinburgh International Book Festival ended tonight with the inaugural Fred Hood Memorial Lecture given…
Jeremy Paxman was introduced by his fellow BBC colleague, Allan Little, for this Open University Event which…
Acclaimed novelist Padgett Powell and leading biographer Fiona MacCarthy have won this year's James Tait…
Wilbur Smith was introduced by Jackie McGlone as the author of some thirty four novels which had sold over…
James Naughtie introduced Alistair Darling for this Thomas Miller Investment Event which was held fittingly…
Stefan Collini is a very intelligent and articulate speaker, as one might reasonably expect of someone…