Caroline Moorehead: Mussolini’s Dangerous Daughter
Where did power really lie in Fascist Italy? Not just with Benito Mussolini, according to Caroline Moorehead, but also with his favourite daughter. In the engrossing Edda Mussolini Moorehead examines the rise and fall of a woman whose husband, Galeazzo Ciano, was Foreign Minister before he plotted to bring Mussolini down.The celebrated biographer joins Jamie Jauncey to discuss this fascinating figure.
Book Festival News
Our response to today's statement from Fossil Free BooksWednesday 15 May
Watch more
Pussy Riot's Maria Alyokhina with Yanis Varoufakis (2018 Event)
Matt Haig at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
Lights Off The Quay - pt2 (Janice Galloway)
Jonathan Freedland: The Man Who Escaped Auschwitz
Charlie Higson: Glamour, Gangs and Greek Islands
Jan Carson, Fergal Keane & Aoife Moore: After Good Friday
Francis Spufford: Lives They May Have Led
Grant Morrison (2013 event)
The Siobhan Dowd Trust Memorial Lecture: Matt Haig (2015 Event)
Ella Frances Sanders & Dominick Tyler (2015 Event)