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Hundreds of events for adults, teenagers and children feature authors, illustrators, musicians, poets, policians, thinkers, prize-winners and rising stars every August.
Are friendships the greatest love affairs of our lives? Join us to celebrate the publication of Michael Pedersen’s much-anticipated prose debut and intimate memoir Boy Friends. Along with two pioneering artists, Shirley Manson and Charlotte Church,...
In 1998, Irvine Welsh published his first detective novel, Filth, featuring Detective Inspector Ray Lennox. Now, Lennox is back in Edinburgh. In The Long Knives, a corrupt, racist Scottish MP with plenty of enemies is found dead behind a warehouse in...