Edinburgh Book Festival

After Covid-19 struck in 2020, the Edinburgh Internati
From Nordic Noir to Tartan Noir, crime writing is a brutal, grisly business across Scandinavia and Scotland
Journalist, critic and broadcaster, Mariella Frostrup was born in Norway, brought up in Ireland and now liv
2019 marks the centenary of the inaugural James Tait Black Prizes founded by Janet Tait Black née Coats, in
“Once across the Equator and into the South East trade winds ...
The director and staff at the EIBF should be congratulated on the creative pairing of these two writers who
This sell out event in the New York Times Theatre, Kate Atkinson was in conversation with Lee Randall.
This was an introduction to the two authors as a part of the Newton First Book Award and was chaired by…
This event with young Welsh poet Owen Sheers was most entertaining and enlightening.  His new…
Tariq Ramadan is no stranger to controversy. The Swiss born and based academic has been on the receiving end…
‘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…
Professor Murray Pittock’s new work on Culloden seeks to scotch (pun partly intended) three principal myths…
Jonathan Dimbleby had Magnus Linklater in the chair for this Experian event looking at 'Where World War Two…
Steven Gale introduced Peter Englund as a best selling historian who had completed his PhD in 1989 and then…
If he were still among us, Czeslaw Milosz would have celebrated his hundredth birthday this year.
This was a splendid 'tour de force' by Paddy Ashdown which everyone thoroughly enjoyed.
Amartya Sen wished to reassure us he was not ‘The Mother Theresa of Economics’.
Melvyn Bragg was introduced to the audience as someone who was well known as a broadcaster - working both for…
What a splendid event with Judy Murray. Her two sons, Andy and Jamie, would have been very proud of her! It…