Edinburgh Book Festival
An evening with Alexander McCall Smith is always a delight and this event, chaired by Jamie Jauncey and…
There was a full house in the Baillie Gifford Main Theatre, where Alfred Brendel was joined by his co-author…
We're weel kent for pithiness in this part
of the world. For summing up our fellows, often to their detriment…
For the Frederick Hood Memorial Event which was sponsored by Walter Scott and Partners Ltd, Professor Susan…
This event had the added enticement of free morning coffee (courtesy of Prestige Venues), which we could…
These are the UK’s oldest Literary Awards, founded in 1919 by Janet Coats, the widow of the publisher, James…
A great deal of ink and opinion has thus far characterised the debate on the 2014 referendum. One book, at…
This, the Thomas Miller Investment Event, was chaired by Ian Fraser, whose book on the RBS collapse, "…
Kate Mosse attracted a packed audience for the introduction to her new novel about female French Resistence…
Mikhail Lermontov (1814-41) was remarkably proud of his Scottish ancestry, traceable to the Learmonths of…
Gavin Hewitt, BBC European Editor, opened his talk with an anecdote about football, particularly apposite…
Iain Overton’s book ‘Gun, Baby, Gun’ investigates one of the most disturbing and frequently overlooked crisis…
As a most astute and intelligent writer with a spontaneous wit, Val McDermid always draws a huge audience at…
Published alongside the exhibition ‘Photography; A Victorian Sensation’ presented at the National Museum of…
This event was chaired by Catriona Murray in the RBS Garden Theatre and it attracted just over thirty people…
Peter Pomerantsev spent ten years working for TNT, the Russian television channel.
‘Embattled’ might seem an odd choice of word to describe Henry McLeish, former First Minister and David…
Iain Macwhirter’s ‘Road to Referendum’, a potted history of how we got to where we are, is now in paperback,…
Who runs Iran? Is its military still powerful? What is the legacy of the 1979 revolution that produced an…
Andrew Franklin in the Chair introduced author Antony Beevor as someone who had become one of the leading…