Edinburgh Book Festival
Giving his personal experience of working in Communist Eastern Europe, former Foreign Correspondent Peter…
There can’t be many people who have not heard of the phenomenal success of “The Girl on the Train” a…
Frank Westerman is a Dutch journalist who grew up amongst horses and has now written a history of the…
Melvyn Bragg was introduced to the audience as someone who was well known as a broadcaster - working both for…
Jonathan Steele is a journalist with The Guardian and has been reporting on Afghanistan since 1981.
In his introductory discussion of ‘A Military History of Scotland’ Edward Spiers was careful to point out…
Stefan Collini is a very intelligent and articulate speaker, as one might reasonably expect of someone…
Professors Murray Pittock and Christopher Whatley have studied different aspects of Scottish historical…
Roy Hattersley appeared with a beard which he assured the audience was not to be seen as being in sympathy…
Iain Martin is a current columnist for "The Times" and a former editor of "The Scotsman" as well as being the…
The e-book, along with content-containing apps and an increasing range of electronic and digital methods of…
In Charles Ferguson's excellent documentary Inside Job, Nouriel Roubini (famously dubbed Dr Doom for his…
Whither the future? A question many of us ask, especially when we’ve no idea what the answer may be.
The Morton Fraser Event, billed as "a man whose love of theatre and actors knows no bounds", featured Simon…
Jonathan Dimbleby had Magnus Linklater in the chair for this Experian event looking at 'Where World War Two…
Duncan Hamilton has won the 'William Hill Sports Book writer of the Year Award' twice.
The Speigeltent at the Edinburgh International Book Festival was near stowed for what promised to be a lively…
The worldwide launch of "The Cat's Table" by Michael Ondaatje was supported by the Hawthornden Literary…
Nicholas Hytner’s ‘Balancing Acts’ is the latest in a considerable line of memoirs produced by former…
Tom Devine, doyen of Scottish historians, was at the Edinburgh International Book Festival to talk about his…