Edinburgh Book Festival

Whether or not the demise of the book as we’ve known it is in sight, it’s clear there are a lot of…
As part of the Muriel Spark 100 celebrations, Alan Taylor, literary critic, writer and close friend of the…
One of the most respected economic commentators of our times, Joseph Stiglitz made a clearly welcome return…
On the evening of Sunday 14th August, the small Peppers Theatre stage was packed with poets – not…
Sheena McDonald greeted us all and emphasised that this was The Dickson Minto event and that for their…
Archaeologist and author Max Adams is at the Edinburgh International Book Festival to promote his most recent…
If he were still among us, Czeslaw Milosz would have celebrated his hundredth birthday this year.
Professor Murray Pittock’s new work on Culloden seeks to scotch (pun partly intended) three principal myths…
Birmingham is famous for its ā€˜Curry Mile’ but cosmopolitan as that city is, Bradford continues to be…
Will Self’s hour-long chat at the Edinburgh International Book Festival was characteristically lucid, witty,…
Gavin Hewitt, BBC European Editor, opened his talk with an anecdote about football, particularly apposite…
Nick Davies is an impressive individual who has rightly been named as the Journalist of the Year and also…
There was yet another full house for the appearance of Rowan Williams for The Ballie Gifford Event.
Mikhail Lermontov (1814-41) was remarkably proud of his Scottish ancestry, traceable to the Learmonths of…
Chair Rosemary Burnett introduced Ma Jian's new book "The Dark Road" as being "an amazing read".
The James Tait Black Prizes were founded in 1919 by Janet Coats, the widow of publisher James Tait Black, to…
Jenny Brown chaired the session with Michael Palin which was billed as "The RBS Event" and there were a very…
In his introduction Andrew Kelly mentioned that David Crane is the Director of Bristol 2014, remembering the…
Alzheimer's and dementia are words most of us fear. We may know those who do or have suffered from these…
The theme of this year’s Edinburgh Book Festival is summed up by the phrase ā€Let’s Talkā€ illustrated with…