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.

150 events - theatre, comedy, music, workshops, fairs, and more - in 50 venues. 1 mile radius.

The King's Theatre is on the look-out for the perfect princess for its christmas pantomime.

Children's theatre company Catherine Wheels have created a highly entertaining production with Gill Robertson's dramatisation of a true story.

The Meadows festival is a free community festival with sporting activities, local bands,

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.

A series of ghostly walks and ghoulish events at a number of venues form this the fourth festival of infamous Edinburgh spirits.

Families and individuals wanting to learn how to turn kitchen scraps into rich, dark compost are invited to a free Compost Fun Day at Seafield Community Recycling Centre this Sunday.

Edinburgh Zoo will be opening the largest chimpanzee enclosure in the world on Friday 2 May.

It's a new name for the festival formerly known as the International Children's Theatre Festival, but you can expect plenty more live entertainment for kids from theatre companies as far flung as C

Skeletron, the large, wiry robot that looks like a character out of the Terminator film franchise and is able to slide up a rope of its own accord, returns to the Edinburgh International Science Fe