Edinburgh Book Festival
Who runs Iran? Is its military still powerful? What is the legacy of the 1979 revolution that produced an…
That Neil Gunn and Maurice Walsh were close friends is a matter of record, attested by the 30 or so letters…
There was yet another full house for the appearance of Rowan Williams for The Ballie Gifford Event.
How did they get away with it? The outrage among the audience at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on…
As the second anniversary of the Maidan protests which ousted the Yanukovich-led government in Ukraine…
An audience with A L Kennedy is never less than an interesting pleasure.
Andrew Franklin in the Chair introduced author Antony Beevor as someone who had become one of the leading…
In the main Book Festival theatre the other night, a packed audience enjoyed listening to Janice Galloway in…
While David Mitchell was on holiday, stand-up comedian Stewart Lee had the opportunity to take his place as a…
No subject could be more topical than looking at the Middle East today and all the problems that it faces.…
James Naughtie welcomed Lady Antonia Fraser by saying that the one thing that leaps out of her new historical…
Jeremy Paxman was at his absolute best for this Open University event which was entitled, "War. Germany.
Roland Glover ably filled in for Alan
Little, "away" doing more pressing work than interviewing Misha Glenny…
Copyright has always been a difficult area, but for some a highly profitable one – a lawyer friend of this…
Even in douce Edinburgh, it is still possible to encounter those with a more than slight sympathy for far…
Andy Wightman’s appearance at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, like that of many another author,…
This, the Thomas Miller Investment Event, was chaired by Ian Fraser, whose book on the RBS collapse, "…
Philip Ziegler is a well known biographer and historian with some twenty four books to his name, including…
Andrew Franklin introduced David Reynolds as a distinguished historian and the Professor of History at…
Billed as considering ‘The Emotional Arguments', the final debate of three sponsored by The Guardian…