Edinburgh Book Festival
Kate Mosse attracted a packed audience for the introduction to her new novel about female French Resistence…
In the main Book Festival theatre the other night, a packed audience enjoyed listening to Janice Galloway in…
This joint 'meet the author' event paired two distinctive novelists, Amanda Craig and Gwendoline Riley, whose…
Andrej Klimowski and Danusia Schejbal offer a unique perspective on Poland under communist rule in their…
Philip Ziegler is a well known biographer and historian with some twenty four books to his name, including…
Alexander McCall Smith is a literary enigma.
The Edinburgh International Book Festival welcomed Jonathan 'Aggers' Agnew, the well-known presenter of Test…
Andrew Franklin introduced David Reynolds as a distinguished historian and the Professor of History at…
Alan Johnson received a very warm welcome when he came into a full Baillie Gifford Main Theatre with Ruth…
For someone who was born on 10th October 1923 - and still broadcasting actively, one must assume that this…
Roy Hattersley came to the first Edinburgh Book Festival in 1983 and has appeared in every year since then -…
With an exciting title and two BBC reporters this promised to be an entertaining session.
Whether Steve Bell can be described as ‘Britain’s best loved cartoonist’ is possibly a matter for debate.
This event brought together two global best-selling writers specialising in suspense, intrigue and murder.
Billed as considering ‘The Emotional Arguments', the final debate of three sponsored by The Guardian…
“Mary Livingstone was not only neglected by her husband David but airbrushed out of history.”
Anna Day, founder and director of the Dundee Literary Festival introduced this event entitled Killer Queen -…
Jenny Brown chaired the session with Michael Palin which was billed as "The RBS Event" and there were a very…
Gavin Hewitt, BBC European Editor, opened his talk with an anecdote about football, particularly apposite…
To celebrate his 60th visit to the Edinburgh Festival, the influential, indomitable cultural entrepreneur,…