Edinburgh Book Festival

Peter Pomerantsev spent ten years working for TNT, the Russian television channel.
Andrew Franklin introduced David Reynolds as a distinguished historian and the Professor of History at…
The late John Bellany (1942 – 2013) is regarded as a major Scottish – indeed European - Figurative…
An appearance by Nicholas Parsons is always a highlight of the Edinburgh International Book Festival and this…
Copyright has always been a difficult area, but for some a highly profitable one – a lawyer friend of this…
Nick Davies is an impressive individual who has rightly been named as the Journalist of the Year and also…
Put 500, largely older people in a huge tent in Edinburgh and they vote against an independent Scotland.
For the Frederick Hood Memorial Event which was sponsored by Walter Scott and Partners Ltd, Professor Susan…
Paddy Ashdown is well known to Edinburgh Book Festival audiences, so Peter Gutteridge was able to give him…
No subject could be more topical than looking at the Middle East today and all the problems that it faces.…
It isn’t every book which has an introduction by Dolly Parton, and the very thought might put some off…
The theme of this year’s Edinburgh Book Festival is summed up by the phrase ā€Let’s Talkā€ illustrated with…
Cuba is the only communist country where I have not felt under constant watch by secret police or informers,…
Three acknowledged experts on China took a capacity audience at the Edinburgh Book Festival's Studio Theatre…
Douglas Newton and David Olusoga came together with Al Senter, in the Chair, to look at the other side of the…
This event brought together two global best-selling writers specialising in suspense, intrigue and murder.
The National Theatre of Scotland has the ironically inclusive slogan of ā€˜theatre without walls’ having in…
Jack Straw was the speaker at The Scott Moncrieff Event with Allan Little in the Chair.
Anna Day, founder and director of the Dundee Literary Festival introduced this event entitled Killer Queen -…
To live in central Edinburgh is to continually walk through history.