The Edinburgh International Book Festival pitches camp in Charlotte Square Gardens this year between 9th and 25th August, hosting a staggering 800 authors from around the world. The quality and range of authors always draws wide interest, and this year is no exception. Following the launch of ticket sales last month, heavy traffic made the web site inaccessible for a while and a good number of events have already sold out.

An exhibition that charts the development of Bond book artwork and design is coming to Edinburgh later this year.

The temporary, tented village at Charlotte Square's Georgian garden, in the heart of Edinburgh's New Town, is the venue for the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

Organisers of the Edinburgh International Book Festival today announced record ticket sales for 2007 with 54% of events selling out completely. 80% of tickets were sold across the 700 events

This Fine Fiction event brought together two very talented young literary novelists. Maggie O'Farrell received ecstatic critical attention for her first novel

The Edinburgh Book Festival Director, Catherine Lockerbie introduced this "extra special pioneering event" featuring two remarkable Canadian writers. Alice Munro appeared by video link from Bayfield bookstore, Ontario, Canada, and Margaret Atwood

Scottish PEN's Lecture at the Edinburgh International Book Festival has become a highlight, and this year, the 80th anniversary of the organisation's founding offered an opportunity to reflect.

Two British Gold Dagger award-winning crime writers appearing together was certainly a star attraction on 15 August at the Edinburgh Book Festival. Rankin introduced Rendell as the writer of over 60 books. "I've lost count" she admits drily - starting with "From Doon with Death" her first Detective Wexford novel published in 1964.

It's possibly ungallant to point out that it's over a decade since publishers Polygon brought out a slim volume of short stories 'Night Geometry and the Garscaden Trains'.

After some fumbling with the sound system, Andrew Franklin introduced speakers Janne Teller and Hari Kunzru. Asked if he thought whether the internet presently increases or decreases our capacity to dissent

Sunday's second pairing between a Scottish and a Danish author was between thriller writers Paul Johnston and Leif Davidsen. Both are, in their own ways, men of the world. Johnston, born in Edinburgh

Kirsty Gunn was announced as the winner, on Saturday, of the inaugural Sundial Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award for her highly acclaimed novella The Boy and the Sea.

Lesley Glaister has written 11 novels, winning the Betty Trask and Somerset Maugham prizes for "Honours Thy Father". She lives in the Borders and Orkney

Danish author Morten Ramsland and Chesire-born Rodge Glass, now living and working in Glasgow, attracted a full Spiegeltent audience on a cold, wet Sunday morning, as part of the Book Festival's "Wake up to words" event series.

O'Hagan made a confession at his London Review of Books event held on Sunday 12 August (8.30pm). After looking around furtively, and wondering if there were any journalists in

I caught local author Iain Banks, on Tuesday (14) at the Edinburgh Book Festival. I've never seen Banks, now 53 years old, in the flesh and I kind of expected him to be like the character in The Bridge

The Edinburgh Book Festival 2007 (11-27 August) is now well into its stride, although some staff have had to resort to welly boots at times to cope with the deluge of rain. I'm sure George Monbiot (appearing on the 26th) will have something to say about the weather.

Whether one is a resident or a visitor, people wonder at and about the architecture of Edinburgh. As an increasing number of high-rise flats and office buildings continue to be shoe-horned into diminishing space, questions about the future of Edinburgh's built environment and its future rise as fast as new buildings.

The sun may be shining brightly on Festival Edinburgh today (Wednesday 15th), but there has been a few downpours in recent days causing the green grassy lawn around the Book Festival in Charlotte Square gardens to become waterlogged.

John Purser has devoted a large part of a very full and active life to the study of music in Scotland. The results of this were first published over a decade ago as 'Scotland's Music', a weighty tome in all senses