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The ‘Bosco Theatre’, one of the Edinburgh International Book Festival’s satellite venues on George Street,…
Misha Glenny was introduced by Douglas Fraser, the BBC News Scotland business and economy editor, who noted…
There was a packed house for the Baillie Gifford event with hostage survivor Ingrid Betancourt and Kirsty…
The Edinburgh International Book Festival, like its sister happenings throughout August, throws up the…
The Edinburgh International Book Festival started with a bang!
Jonathan Steele is a journalist with The Guardian and has been reporting on Afghanistan since 1981.
Frank Westerman is a Dutch journalist who grew up amongst horses and has now written a history of the…
Wilbur Smith was introduced by Jackie McGlone as the author of some thirty four novels which had sold…
The title of Iain Macwhirter’s event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival - ‘Scotland’s Democratic…
I had the good fortune a few years ago to run into JK Rowling while she was writing the final instalment of…
This was a politician at his best! Malcolm Rifkind was in ebullient mood when he spoke to a full house at…
John McCarthy was introduced by Allan Little for this inaugural Frederick Hood Memorial Lecture. It was…
Paul Mason, appearing at the Edinburgh International Book Festival to promote the paperback edition of his…
Professor Murray Pittock’s new work on Culloden seeks to scotch (pun partly intended) three principal myths…
This Edinburgh International Book Festival event was chaired by, and part of a series of events chosen by,…
The session ("Telling Tales: The Vital Important of Stories") was chaired by Claire Armistead, who caught our…
Leading up to 14 April, 2012, a plethora of TV documentaries, drama series and books have commemorated the…
In the middle of Margaret Thatcher’s icy reign over the UK, parts of Edinburgh may have been checking if…
Archaeologist and author Max Adams is at the Edinburgh International Book Festival to promote his most recent…
This session with Frances Wilson was chaired by Sheena McDonald who immediately discovered that very few…