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For some people their careers are defined by a single issue, so said Ruth Wishart who was chairing theā¦
Peter Hart is the Oral Historian at the Imperial War Museum and an internationally recognised expert onā¦
The session ("Telling Tales: The Vital Important of Stories") was chaired by Claire Armistead, who caught ourā¦
Andy Hamilton, probably best known for appearances on āHave I Got News For Youā and āQIā and rather less soā¦
Maggie OāFarrell is a remarkable novelist with a fresh, distinctive voice and visual imagination. Sheā¦
It was a delight to see Joan Bakewell back in Edinburgh - as she put it herself, "the time seems to haveā¦
There can be no doubt that publishing is undergoing significant and long-lasting change.
Joe Simpson, the author of Touching the Void was introduced by Alan Morrison, the Group Arts Editor of Theā¦
If you have been interested in anything, ever, you will find it here.
Some of the best art is scarcely noted.
The sight of the Inverbeg Recycling Unit and its hard-hatted and fluorescent-jacketed workers roaming theā¦
David Mitchellās got it. He has moved from relative obscurity among mainstream book readers to being one ofā¦
Steven Gale introduced Peter Englund as a best selling historian who had completed his PhD in 1989 and thenā¦
Joan Bakewell belied her age, which apparently is eighty three, and looked stunning in an orange coat withā¦
Ruth Dudley Edwards appeared at the Edinburgh International Book Festival to promote āThe Seven; The Livesā¦
"The Wealth of Nations" has never been out of publication since it first appeared some two hundred and thirtyā¦
This event proved one of the most stimulating and thought provoking this reviewer has thus far attended atā¦
There canāt be many people who have not heard of the phenomenal success of āThe Girl on the Trainā aā¦
In the middle of Margaret Thatcherās icy reign over the UK, parts of Edinburgh may have been checking ifā¦
This was an imaginative and inspirational double act - an international best selling crimeā¦