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The e-book, along with content-containing apps and an increasing range of electronic and digital methods of…
Author and journalist Magnus Linklater was in the Chair, to introduce Max Hastings as someone who has a…
With Al Senter as chair, Bath described the astonishing story of Tommy Macpherson's very full life.
Musical stage adaptation of Flora Thompson's nostalgic story fails to take off.
Whether or not the demise of the book as we’ve known it is in sight, it’s clear there are a lot of…
The Bosco Theatre is like a vintage circus tent, where writers, not animals and clowns, will entertain and…
On the evening of Sunday 14th August, the small Peppers Theatre stage was packed with poets – not…
Ruth Dudley Edwards appeared at the Edinburgh International Book Festival to promote ‘The Seven; The Lives…
In his introductory discussion of ‘A Military History of Scotland’ Edward Spiers was careful to point out…
Professor Murray Pittock’s new work on Culloden seeks to scotch (pun partly intended) three principal myths…
Although not quite as common a surname in Scotland as it once was, Flemings can still be found in telephone…
Matthew Ovortrup's book on Angela Merkel was hugely popular and the Studio Theatre in Charlotte Square Garden…
This was one of the most disappointing sessions I have been to in the Book Festival.
The title of Iain Macwhirter’s event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival - ‘Scotland’s Democratic…
Joe Simpson, the author of Touching the Void was introduced by Alan Morrison, the Group Arts Editor of The…
Ruby Wax came into the auditorium to resounding applause and clearly revelled in the very supportive welcome…
Phillipe Sands’ event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival proved to be one of the most genuinely…
I had the good fortune a few years ago to run into JK Rowling while she was writing the final instalment of…
Sheena McDonald greeted us all and emphasised that this was The Dickson Minto event and that for their…
Peter Hart is the Oral Historian at the Imperial War Museum and an internationally recognised expert on…