Edinburgh Book Festival

The Edinburgh International Book Festival and the British Council are collaborating on a new venture The…
An all-female shortlist for the fourth annual Edwin Morgan Poetry Competition has been announced. Five poems…
Late literary nights are set to last a little bit longer this August with the return of Unbound to the…
The Edinburgh International Book Festival is reporting an unprecedented demand for tickets with over 300,000…
The Edinburgh International Book Festival 2011 will see 17 days of book readings, discussions, and events…
The recently appointed Children’s Laureate Julia Donaldson is this year's Guest Selector at the Edinburgh…
Edinburgh's Festivals will share £2 million from the Scottish Government to showcase Scottish cultural and…
A new exhibition inspired by imprisoned writers and banned publications joins the permanent exhibition…
The Edinburgh Book Festival closed with a moving tribute to Scotland’s first national poet, Edwin Morgan who…
Following the death of Edwin Morgan last week, The Edinburgh International Book Festival has confirmed that a…
Best known to the general public for his charming, flamboyant and ultimately moving performance as Gareth in…
Considering that the financial success or failure of any show at Edinburgh's Festival Fringe can depend…
A.A. Milne’s belovèd children’s classic, Winnie- the- Pooh, was written in 1926 and has since been translated…
Hairdresser Vidal Sassoon, Nobel Laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz, poet Seamus Heaney, and Doonesbury…
For the final Fine Fiction writer's event at the Edinburgh Book Festival it was the award winning, Edinburgh-…
Two crime thriller writers were brought together for this discussion on their latest novels, The…
It's always interesting to watch idealism encounter pragmatism - especially when one considers "pragmatism"…
In 1978 Susie Orbach, a psychotherapist, wrote her first book "Fat is a Feminist Issue," (FIFI), a self help…
Generation X author Douglas Coupland was last in Scotland for the Edinburgh Book Festival in 2004, and this…
Ruth Wishart is undoubtedly A Good Thing (to borrow Sellers and Yeatman's phrase of approval), and it was…