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The director and staff at the EIBF should be congratulated on the creative pairing of these two writers who
This sell out event in the New York Times Theatre, Kate Atkinson was in conversation with Lee Randall.
Two characters, separated by time and space meet for the first time in the world-wide premiere of Alice
“Maker, ye maun sing them…
Tomorrow, songs
Will flow free again, and new voices
Be borne on the carrying…
"The Wealth of Nations" has never been out of publication since it first appeared some two hundred and thirty…
Paddy Ashdown took to the stage at the Edinburgh International Book Festival for the second time in twenty…
Sheena McDonald introduced this session about The Third Reich's Celluloid War by Ian Garden who confessed…
Margaret Rutherford was an extraordinary English character actress, renowned for energetic, feisty roles,…
The first debate on ‘Would Culture Lose its Shine in an Independent Scotland?’ promised we
David Mitchell’s got it. He has moved from relative obscurity among mainstream book readers to being one of…
One of the most respected economic commentators of our times, Joseph Stiglitz made a clearly welcome return…
Maggie O’Farrell is a remarkable novelist with a fresh, distinctive voice and visual imagination. She…
While it may have been natural for the Edinburgh International Book Festival to commence its ‘Re-Thinking The…
Whither the future? A question many of us ask, especially when we’ve no idea what the answer may be.
The session ("Telling Tales: The Vital Important of Stories") was chaired by Claire Armistead, who caught our…
Nicholas Carr came prominently to public attention with his article ‘Is Google making Us Stupid?’ He has, in…
Alan Taylor has a long history as a journalist with The Scotsman, where he rose to be the deputy and then…
Sheena McDonald greeted us all and emphasised that this was The Dickson Minto event and that for their…
If he were still among us, Czeslaw Milosz would have celebrated his hundredth birthday this year.
This book by Alistair Kerr, "Betrayal: The Murder of Robert Nairac GC", is a disappointment.