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Sheena McDonald introduced Malloch-Brown as someone with huge experience of international affairs having…
There are few speakers who attend the Edinburgh Book Festival who can command an audience the way Roy…
Ruby Wax came into the auditorium to resounding applause and clearly revelled in the very supportive welcome…
Maggie O’Farrell is a remarkable novelist with a fresh, distinctive voice and visual imagination. She…
This book by Alistair Kerr, "Betrayal: The Murder of Robert Nairac GC", is a disappointment.
Political scientist Matthew Goodwin introduced his book "UKIP" by explaining that the book really came about…
Giving his personal experience of working in Communist Eastern Europe, former Foreign Correspondent Peter…
Steven Gale introduced Peter Englund as a best selling historian who had completed his PhD in 1989 and then…
David Mitchell’s got it. He has moved from relative obscurity among mainstream book readers to being one of…
Ian Rankin introduced Frederick Forsyth to the packed house by wondering if his new book 'The Outsider' was…
The 2019 Edinburgh International Book Festival launched the “most international programme in its history”…
A bit sick of Christmas? Come indulge your dark side with a modern dramatisation of RL Stevenson’s 'The…
The Eighth Borders Book Festival brings four days of engaging, thought-provoking and inspirational talk and…
Inspired by St Andrew himself, ‘Fisherman’s Feast’ has received support through Scotland’s Winter Festivals…
A book by a North-east novelist, which was once banned in her home town, is set to tour Scotland
First Reading of a new play about the life of Belle Stewart, a cultural icon, and Scottish Traditional…
With over a week of the Edinburgh International Book Festival behind us I feel like it’s time to reflect.
This morning there was a less-than-bloody pitched battle between Richard Holloway, Richard Harries and author…
Seven years after its original inception, Donald Smith’s adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic…