Edinburgh Book Festival
How can you describe such a literary phenomenon as Alexander McCall Smith?
With Magnus Linklater in the chair the speaker, James Naughtie was introduced to a packed audience as someone…
Anna Day, founder and director of the Dundee Literary Festival introduced this event entitled Killer Queen -…
Three acknowledged experts on China took a capacity audience at the Edinburgh Book Festival's Studio Theatre…
This was The Open University Event, with the person who was identified as 'The Most Dangerous Woman in…
To celebrate his 60th visit to the Edinburgh Festival, the influential, indomitable cultural entrepreneur,…
Alistair Moffat stood alone on the stage to introduce Gordon Brown who received a tremendous welcome from a…
Cuba is the only communist country where I have not felt under constant watch by secret police or informers,…
Chef Mark Greenaway strides on to the platform as if ready to give us a cookery demonstration but he is here…
Serena Scott began by asking Rhidan Brook to describe the background to his book, "The Aftermath".
The imaginative, invented world of fiction can often explore contemporary real life issues in a more profound…
Jack Straw was the speaker at The Scott Moncrieff Event with Allan Little in the Chair.
For anyone interested in travel or world geography, this was a most inspirational discussion - indeed a…
For over thirty years, Alastair Reid has deserved five stars.
There are not too many occasions when the speaker is already on stage as the audience come in.
Melvyn Bragg had a sell-out audience as one might expect for such a well known radio and television presenter.
Alistair Moffat’s Bannockburn: The Battle for a Nation appears in the event’s 700th anniversary year.
This event proved one of the highlights of the 2013 Edinburgh International Book Festival thus far, certainly…
Chair Rosemary Burnett introduced Ma Jian's new book "The Dark Road" as being "an amazing read".
Douglas Newton and David Olusoga came together with Al Senter, in the Chair, to look at the other side of the…