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Edinburgh and Scotland books

This New Year’s Day marks the beginning of the Year of Young People 2018 and today, Edinburgh’s Hogmanay…
In the middle of Margaret Thatcher’s icy reign over the UK, parts of Edinburgh may have been checking if…
Ruth Wishart in the Chair, introduced Harriet Harman as someone who had her own set of rules; she was a…
This year, the Edinburgh International Book Festival has been privileged to welcome two of the United States…
There is happy buzzing chatter from the capacity audience in the Main Theatre.
Nicholas Hytner’s ‘Balancing Acts’ is the latest in a considerable line of memoirs produced by former…
The ‘Bosco Theatre’, one of the Edinburgh International Book Festival’s satellite venues on George Street,…
David Mitchell started by explaining that he was the author and not the comedian!
This event proved one of the most stimulating and thought provoking this reviewer has thus far attended at…
Sheena McDonald greeted us all and emphasised that this was The Dickson Minto event and that for their…
Ruth Wishart had a quick barbed comment when she saw that Jeremy Paxman had brought in a glass of wine: "…
This was one of the most disappointing sessions I have been to in the Book Festival.