Edinburgh Book Festival

Andrew Franklin introduced David Reynolds as a distinguished historian and the Professor of History at…
Delving into the intimate lives of real women has taken Paula McLain and Priya Parmar on extensive travel…
An appearance by Nicholas Parsons is always a highlight of the Edinburgh International Book Festival and this…
The title of the event, ā€œFirst New Novel for Seven Yearsā€ certainly drew a huge appreciative audience to the…
Whether Steve Bell can be described as ā€˜Britain’s best loved cartoonist’ is possibly a matter for debate.
John Kay’s ā€˜Other People’s Money; Masters of the Universe or Servants of the People?’ asks some serious…
How did they get away with it? The outrage among the audience at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on…
The Baillie Gifford Corner Theatre was full for this interesting session by two men who had interesting…
Late in the seventeenth century, an as yet independent Scotland sought to catch up in the fast-paced race for…
As part of the series Muriel Spark 100, Val McDermid introduced Ali Smith as Scotland’s greatest living…
As a most astute and intelligent writer with a spontaneous wit, Val McDermid always draws a huge audience at…
That Neil Gunn and Maurice Walsh were close friends is a matter of record, attested by the 30 or so letters…
Peter Pomerantsev spent ten years working for TNT, the Russian television channel.
The Peppers Theatre was packed for this intriguingly titled session by Matthew Smith on "Who Really Killed…
There are not too many occasions when the speaker is already on stage as the audience come in.
The theme of this year’s Edinburgh Book Festival is summed up by the phrase ā€Let’s Talkā€ illustrated with…
Jenny Brown chaired the session with Michael Palin which was billed as "The RBS Event" and there were a very…
Alexander McCall Smith is a literary enigma.
James Naughtie welcomed Lady Antonia Fraser by saying that the one thing that leaps out of her new historical…
A. L. Kennedy is no stranger to the Edinburgh International Book Festival, or indeed to other such events.