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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…
This session with Frances Wilson was chaired by Sheena McDonald who immediately discovered that very few…
Tom Devine, doyen of Scottish historians, was at the Edinburgh International Book Festival to talk about his…
In his introductory discussion of ‘A Military History of Scotland’ Edward Spiers was careful to point out…
The sight of the Inverbeg Recycling Unit and its hard-hatted and fluorescent-jacketed workers roaming the…
Professor Murray Pittock’s new work on Culloden seeks to scotch (pun partly intended) three principal myths…
Duncan Hamilton has won the 'William Hill Sports Book writer of the Year Award' twice.
John McCarthy was introduced by Allan Little for this inaugural Frederick Hood Memorial Lecture. It was…
The Peppers Theatre tent in Charlotte Square Garden isn’t the largest venue at the Edinburgh International…
Iain Martin is a current columnist for "The Times" and a former editor of "The Scotsman" as well as being the…
Sometimes one comes across something that seems a little slight at first, that then proves to be more durable.
The first debate on ‘Would Culture Lose its Shine in an Independent Scotland?’ promised we
Absurdism and satire have been healthy strands in Russian literature for a very long time.
In the middle of Margaret Thatcher’s icy reign over the UK, parts of Edinburgh may have been checking if…
There is happy buzzing chatter from the capacity audience in the Main Theatre.
What a splendid event with Judy Murray. Her two sons, Andy and Jamie, would have been very proud of her! It…
Jonathan Dimbleby had Magnus Linklater in the chair for this Experian event looking at 'Where World War Two…