Edinburgh Book Festival
This event with young Welsh poet Owen Sheers was most entertaining and enlightening. His new…
John McCarthy was introduced by Allan Little for this inaugural Frederick Hood Memorial Lecture. It was…
Stefan Collini is a very intelligent and articulate speaker, as one might reasonably expect of someone…
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 ‘Bosco Theatre’, one of the Edinburgh International Book Festival’s satellite venues on George Street,…
Professor Willy Maley and post-graduate student Kirsty Luck have edited one among the more valuable…
Matthew Ovortrup's book on Angela Merkel was hugely popular and the Studio Theatre in Charlotte Square Garden…
‘You Know What You Could Be’ is the kind of phrase that echoes the hopes, dreams and downright fantasies of…
Professor Paul Broda was introduced by Tam Dalyell who said that it must be unique to have two fathers who…
Professors Murray Pittock and Christopher Whatley have studied different aspects of Scottish historical…
This special event, in the Charlotte Square Garden Spiegeltent, was preceded by an excellent afternoon with…
In his introductory discussion of ‘A Military History of Scotland’ Edward Spiers was careful to point out…
Ruth Wishart had a quick barbed comment when she saw that Jeremy Paxman had brought in a glass of wine: "…
Clearly Nina Stibbe is already very popular as this event was completely sold out.
"The Wealth of Nations" has never been out of publication since it first appeared some two hundred and thirty…
With a title like this and her recent wide appeal as a contestant in "Strictly Come Dancing" this show was…
Ruby Wax came into the auditorium to resounding applause and clearly revelled in the very supportive welcome…
Paddy Ashdown spoke at the Baker Tilly Event which was chaired by the BBC "Today" presenter James Naughtie.
Sheena McDonald introduced Malloch-Brown as someone with huge experience of international affairs having…
Jonathan Dimbleby had Magnus Linklater in the chair for this Experian event looking at 'Where World War Two…