Edinburgh Book Festival

This event brought together two global best-selling writers specialising in suspense, intrigue and murder.
Iain Macwhirter’s ā€˜Road to Referendum’, a potted history of how we got to where we are, is now in paperback,…
Late in the seventeenth century, an as yet independent Scotland sought to catch up in the fast-paced race for…
The Scottish independence issue and next year's referendum is creeping into many of the events at the…
Roland Glover ably filled in for Alan Little, "away" doing more pressing work than interviewing Misha Glenny…
In the main Book Festival theatre the other night, a packed audience enjoyed listening to Janice Galloway in…
This event, offered by Publishing Scotland, and chaired by Jenny Brown, attempted to look at the…
Andrej Klimowski and Danusia Schejbal offer a unique perspective on Poland under communist rule in their…
Kate Summerscale became a best selling author with ā€œThe Suspicions of Mr Whicherā€, about the scandalous real…
This event was chaired by Catriona Murray in the RBS Garden Theatre and it attracted just over thirty people…
This was one of the first events of the Edinburgh International Book Festival and featured Tariq Ali with…
We're weel kent for pithiness in this part of the world. For summing up our fellows, often to their detriment…
For someone who was born on 10th October 1923 - and still broadcasting actively, one must assume that this…
With Magnus Linklater in the chair the speaker, James Naughtie was introduced to a packed audience as someone…
One might expect a good-sized audience for any event with 'Independence' and 'Scotland' in the title, and…
For the Frederick Hood Memorial Event which was sponsored by Walter Scott and Partners Ltd, Professor Susan…
With an exciting title and two BBC reporters this promised to be an entertaining session.
The winner of numerous literary prizes for previous anthologies, Kathleen Jamie received the prestigious…
Roy Hattersley was introduced as someone who has been at every Edinburgh Book Festival since 1983 which is…
Although Poland disappeared from the map of Europe in 1939, her people did not. Halik Kochanski’s book, The…