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.

YA Author Wins 2016 Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book Award

YA Author Wins 2016 Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book Award
Thu 27 October 2016

YA Author Kathryn Evans was today announced as the winner of the 2016 Edinburgh International Book Festival’s First Book Award for her debut novel, More of Me…

Jeffrey Archer to speak in Edinburgh in exclusive Book Festival event

Jeffrey Archer to speak in Edinburgh in exclusive Book Festival event
Thu 06 October 2016

In an exclusive Scottish event for the Edinburgh International Book Festival’s Booked! programme the publishing sensation Jeffrey Archer launches This Was a Man in Edinburgh this November. The publication of this, the seventh and final instalment in his epic number-one bestselling Clifton Chronicles, will bring to a thrilling conclusion the spellbinding series which has captivated readers since 2011…