Audio & Video Photographs Writers Writing
Lemn Sissay at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
The Novelist and the Tyrants by S J Naudé In the South Africa of the 1970s and 80s, political writing was practically the only mode that was available to writers who wanted to be taken seriously. And coupled with the need to integrate a critique of the inhumane system of apartheid into one’s fiction, was the requisite mode of realism, which had long been viewed as the most effective vehicle for politically engaged fiction… The Novelist and the Tyrants by S J Naudé
Casey Gerald talks to DeRay Mckesson at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
Prue Leith at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
Matt Haig
Thomas Keneally at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
Ian Rankin at the 2019 Edinburgh International Book Festival
Neal Ascherson
Caroline Criado Perez talks to Sally Magnusson at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
Benjamin Zephaniah
Kirsty Wark
Johnny B. Crude by Olumide Popoola There is freedom that emanates when you speak your name, when you use your voice. It reaches beyond the outcome. The act of enunciation is a conjuring, a testament, a moment that signifies your existence while generating a future… Johnny B. Crude by Olumide Popoola
Gail Honeyman
Candice Carty-Williams
Meike Ziervogel
Arundhati Roy talks to Nicola Sturgeon at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
Cathy Newman at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
Author portraits on the walkways
Giles Yeo at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
Fatima Bhutto at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
Only the Freedom of Fiction is Certain by Shahad Al Rawi In the final scene of the movie Braveheart, William Wallace uses the last bit of his power while shouting the word: 'Freedom!'… Only the Freedom of Fiction is Certain by Shahad Al Rawi
Colson Whitehead talks to Kirsty Wark at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
DeRay Mckesson
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Robin Knox Johnston
Ian Robertson at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
Salman Rushdie at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
What Is To Come by Ever Dundas Freedom is a world without capitalism… What Is To Come by Ever Dundas
Pedro Lenz
Ahmet Altan
Thomas Keneally
Roger McGough
Charlotte Square Gardens
Sally Green
Ned Beauman
Ann Cleeves at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
Tracey Thorn at the Edinburgh International Book Festival