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On the evening of Sunday 14th August, the small Peppers Theatre stage was packed with poets – not…
There is happy buzzing chatter from the capacity audience in the Main Theatre.
Saul David seems to have undergone an alarming make-over since the earlier days of his writing career.
Ruth Dudley Edwards appeared at the Edinburgh International Book Festival to promote ‘The Seven; The Lives…
The title of Iain Macwhirter’s event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival - ‘Scotland’s Democratic…
‘You Know What You Could Be’ is the kind of phrase that echoes the hopes, dreams and downright fantasies of…
Duncan Hamilton has won the 'William Hill Sports Book writer of the Year Award' twice.
Sometimes one comes across something that seems a little slight at first, that then proves to be more durable.
Melvyn Bragg was introduced to the audience as someone who was well known as a broadcaster - working both for…
There are few speakers who attend the Edinburgh Book Festival who can command an audience the way Roy…
The 2019 Edinburgh International Book Festival launched the “most international programme in its history”…
Eric Lomax, who wrote movingly about his experiences of being tortured as a Japanese POW and his subsequent…
Seven years after its original inception, Donald Smith’s adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic…
First Reading of a new play about the life of Belle Stewart, a cultural icon, and Scottish Traditional…
Inspired by St Andrew himself, ‘Fisherman’s Feast’ has received support through Scotland’s Winter Festivals…
This morning there was a less-than-bloody pitched battle between Richard Holloway, Richard Harries and author…
As tickets go on sale, a quick look at some of the highlights of the Edinburgh Book Festival which in 2012…
A book by a North-east novelist, which was once banned in her home town, is set to tour Scotland
With over a week of the Edinburgh International Book Festival behind us I feel like it’s time to reflect.