Edinburgh Book Festival
Joan Bakewell belied her age, which apparently is eighty three, and looked stunning in an orange coat with…
James Naughtie introduced Alistair Darling for this Thomas Miller Investment Event which was held fittingly…
This proved to be the most interesting and liveliest of the Guardian debates at the Edinburgh International…
The session ("Telling Tales: The Vital Important of Stories") was chaired by Claire Armistead, who caught our…
Tariq Ramadan is no stranger to controversy. The Swiss born and based academic has been on the receiving end…
Roy Hattersley is a regular visitor to the Edinburgh Book Festival and a prolific author in his own right, so…
This event proved one of the most stimulating and thought provoking this reviewer has thus far attended at…
Some of the best art is scarcely noted.
This event with young Welsh poet Owen Sheers was most entertaining and enlightening. His new…
Ruth Wishart had a quick barbed comment when she saw that Jeremy Paxman had brought in a glass of wine: "…
Whether or not the demise of the book as we’ve known it is in sight, it’s clear there are a lot of…
Phillipe Sands’ event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival proved to be one of the most genuinely…
There was again an absolutely full house for this British Academy sponsored event featuring Sir Tom Devine,…
Publishing Scotland’s event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, was entitled ‘Culture Versus…
This was the second debate in the Edinburgh International Book Festival’s trilogy of events under the title ‘…
Sometimes one comes across something that seems a little slight at first, that then proves to be more durable.
Amartya Sen wished to reassure us he was not ‘The Mother Theresa of Economics’.
Maggie O’Farrell is a remarkable novelist with a fresh, distinctive voice and visual imagination. She…
Professor Murray Pittock’s new work on Culloden seeks to scotch (pun partly intended) three principal myths…
Peter Hart is the Oral Historian at the Imperial War Museum and an internationally recognised expert on…