Edinburgh Book Festival
Steven Gale introduced Peter Englund as a best selling historian who had completed his PhD in 1989 and then…
I finally managed to catch Sandy McCall Smith on Friday, 19th August having tried to book a session with him…
It was a delight to see Joan Bakewell back in Edinburgh - as she put it herself, "the time seems to have…
Sheena McDonald introduced this session about The Third Reich's Celluloid War by Ian Garden who confessed…
What could some artsy-fartsy novelist possibly know about banking? – One can almost hear the roars from the…
Sheena McDonald introduced Malloch-Brown as someone with huge experience of international affairs having…
Birmingham is famous for its ‘Curry Mile’ but cosmopolitan as that city is, Bradford continues to be…
Paddy Ashdown spoke at the Baker Tilly Event which was chaired by the BBC "Today" presenter James Naughtie.
The session with Anjan Sundaram with Jenny Niven in the Chair deserved to be better attended - the…
Professor Paul Broda was introduced by Tam Dalyell who said that it must be unique to have two fathers who…
David Mitchell’s got it. He has moved from relative obscurity among mainstream book readers to being one of…
Although not quite as common a surname in Scotland as it once was, Flemings can still be found in telephone…
There was a packed house for the Baillie Gifford event with hostage survivor Ingrid Betancourt and Kirsty…
The Edinburgh International Book Festival, like its sister happenings throughout August, throws up the…
There is happy buzzing chatter from the capacity audience in the Main Theatre.
Professor Murray Pittock’s new work on Culloden seeks to scotch (pun partly intended) three principal myths…
Melvyn Bragg was introduced to the audience as someone who was well known as a broadcaster - working both for…
The Edinburgh International Book Festival started with a bang!
The worldwide launch of "The Cat's Table" by Michael Ondaatje was supported by the Hawthornden Literary…
This was the second debate in the Edinburgh International Book Festival’s trilogy of events under the title ‘…