Press Releases

Up-to-date news from the Book Festival press office will be posted here as we have it. Please browse the latest and archive press releases below.

Mull Author Colin Macintyre Wins First Book Award

Mull Author Colin Macintyre Wins First Book Award
Tue 27 October 2015

Scottish author Colin MacIntyre was today announced as the winner of the 2015 Edinburgh International Book Festival’s First Book Award with his debut novel The Letters of Ivor Punch, published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson…

Award-winning Children’s Author Elizabeth Laird to Speak at Edinburgh International Book Festival Event this November

Award-winning Children’s Author Elizabeth Laird to Speak at Edinburgh International Book Festival Event this November
Tue 20 October 2015

Elizabeth Laird, the UK’s nominated author for the 2016 Hans Christian Andersen Award, will be speaking at an Edinburgh International Book Festival event on Sunday 22 November…