The Edinburgh International Book Festival ended tonight with the inaugural Fred Hood Memorial Lecture delivered by journalist and broadcaster John McCarthy…
The Mexican journalist and feminist Lydia Cacho spoke today about her latest book Slavery Inc., a devastating account of the world trade in human trafficking…
Acclaimed novelist Padgett Powell and leading biographer Fiona MacCarthy have joined the roll call of celebrated writers to win the James Tait Black Prizes, Britain’s oldest literary awards…
Howard Jacobson, the man described by the Guardian as ‘one of the great sentence builders of all time’ came to the Edinburgh International Book Festival today…
Man Booker Prize-winning novelist, Ian McEwan, likened writing a novel to getting married when he spoke last night at the Edinburgh International Book Festival…
Paul Broda is a man with a particularly fascinating family history. Speaking to Tam Dalyell at the Edinburgh International Book Festival yesterday…
At the fifth and final day of the 2012 Edinburgh World Writers’ Conference author China Miéville led a passionate debate about the future of the novel…
The fourth day at the Edinburgh World Writers’ Conference saw an impassioned debate on censorship in the internet age…
On the third day of the Edinburgh World Writers’ Conference Ian Rankin and Irvine Welsh led a discussion about the impact of national identity…
Irvine Welsh joined fellow author Doug Johnstone on stage at the Edinburgh International Book Festival last night…
The winners of the fifth Edwin Morgan International Poetry Competition were announced at a ceremony at the Edinburgh International Book Festival last night…
Keynote speaker Ali Smith opened the second debate of the Edinburgh World Writers’ Conference…
‘I have plundered my own life for fiction to the extent that I am not quite sure if it is remembered memory, invented memory, or told memory – I have fogged the whole thing’ said Michael Morpurgo…
It was announced last night at the Edinburgh International Book Festival that the winner of the 2012 Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book of the Year Award is Janice Galloway…
50 years after Edinburgh hosted a legendary conference, credited as the world’s first literature festival, the Edinburgh World Writers’ Conference got underway today with the first event asking ‘Should Literature be Political?…
The “tender soul” of war reportage, Janine di Giovanni and “anti-war reporter” Ed Vulliamy appeared at the Edinburgh International Book Festival today to talk about their experience…
12 months to the day since the mysterious paper sculptures were dropped off at the Edinburgh International Book Festival and the Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature Trust, the anonymous sculptor has visited the Festival again…
The defence, and anti-death penalty lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith OBE appeared at the Edinburgh International Book Festival last night…
Alistair Moffat, author of The Scots: A Genetic Journey, revealed that “all Scots were briefly English”…
Scotland needs to stop being afraid of ‘getting it wrong’ and increase its confidence if it is to move forward as a nation, argued Carol Craig, author of The Scots Crisis of Confidence…
Former Islamist extremist turned democrat, Maajid Nawaz, appeared at the Edinburgh International Book Festival…
“Eight senior Scottish judges got it wrong, but the question is why? It is not because of a lack of intellectual skills”, said Hans Köchler this morning…
Whether you’re concerned about suffering from Olympic withdrawal symptoms, or have had enough sport to last you a lifetime, the Edinburgh International Book Festival, which starts this weekend, could have the solution…
The organisers of the Edinburgh World Writers’ Conference today announced that the website for the event –www.edinburghworldwritersconference.org – is now live... …
Football impressionist and actor Jonathan Watson will be making an appearance at the Edinburgh International Book Festival this August…
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