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For some people their careers are defined by a single issue, so said Ruth Wishart who was chairing the…
Peter Hart is the Oral Historian at the Imperial War Museum and an internationally recognised expert on…
The session ("Telling Tales: The Vital Important of Stories") was chaired by Claire Armistead, who caught our…
Andy Hamilton, probably best known for appearances on ā€˜Have I Got News For You’ and ā€˜QI’ and rather less so…
Maggie O’Farrell is a remarkable novelist with a fresh, distinctive voice and visual imagination. She…
It was a delight to see Joan Bakewell back in Edinburgh - as she put it herself, "the time seems to have…
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 The…
If you have been interested in anything, ever, you will find it here.
The sight of the Inverbeg Recycling Unit and its hard-hatted and fluorescent-jacketed workers roaming the…
David Mitchell’s got it. He has moved from relative obscurity among mainstream book readers to being one of…
Steven Gale introduced Peter Englund as a best selling historian who had completed his PhD in 1989 and then…
Joan Bakewell belied her age, which apparently is eighty three, and looked stunning in an orange coat with…
Ruth Dudley Edwards appeared at the Edinburgh International Book Festival to promote ā€˜The Seven; The Lives…
"The Wealth of Nations" has never been out of publication since it first appeared some two hundred and thirty…
This event proved one of the most stimulating and thought provoking this reviewer has thus far attended at…
There can’t be many people who have not heard of the phenomenal success of ā€œThe Girl on the Trainā€ a…
In the middle of Margaret Thatcher’s icy reign over the UK, parts of Edinburgh may have been checking if…
This was an imaginative and inspirational double act - an international best selling crime…