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Alastair McIntosh: Poacher’s Pilgrimage – An Island Journey
Alastair McIntosh was born in 1955 at Leurbost on Lewis, that northern part of a Hebridean island with two names, two identities. Forty-three years...
Edinburgh International Book Festival – True Stories Live
Intimate storytelling treat featuring performers and non performers
telling their own stories
True Stories Live is an intimate storytelling event with a simple premise, ordinary people tell...
SCOTLAND THE BEST 100 Places
Pete Irvine may be known as the man who first brought us Edinburgh's Hogmanay, but he is also an author.
SCOTLAND THE BEST 100 Places...
Mother Tongue Other Tongue
Linguistic Award for young Edinburgh Poets
The multilingual talents of budding young poets from two Edinburgh schools were celebrated at a prestigious award ceremony in...
Win a signed copy of Alan Cumming’s new book here!
The Scottish actor who has made it to Broadway, winning a Tony along the way among many awards, and who wowed us during the...
2016 Saltire Society Book of the Year
2016 Saltire Society Book of the Year is “..visionary and profound” poetry collection
A poetry collection by Stirling University Professor Kathleen Jamie has beaten off...
Edinburgh author in the running for a Novella Award
Edinburgh author Christina Neuwirth, 26, has been shortlisted for the literary Novella Award run by Manchester Metropolitan University for her short novel Amphibian.
This is the third...
Independent and Radical Book Fair 28 – 31 October
The 20th Edinburgh Independent and Radical Book Fair takes place at the Out of the Blue Drill Hall between 26 and 30 October.
The hall becomes...
2016 Edinburgh International Book Festival – 29th August p.m.
So that's it over for another year - well closer to 50 weeks, but who's counting - and the final day saw a couple...
2016 Edinburgh International Book Festival – 26th August p.m.
Another day of reschedules, no shows and a didn't know. Once again the staff tried their best, but.....
2016 Edinburgh International Book Festival – 25th August p.m.
Another afternoon of 'no shows' at the allotted time, then all arriving at once. The poor press staff were running all over the place...
2016 Edinburgh International Book Festival – 24th August p.m. Pt. 2
Later on in the day we were visited round the back of the tent by Sir Vince Cable and another 'Man Booker Prize Nominee',...
2016 Edinburgh International Book Festival – 24th August p.m.
Another day, another gathering, this one a bit more avant garde when it came to timings, but, at least, they all turned up at...
2016 Edinburgh International Book Festival – 22nd August p.m.
After a brief hiatus, we're back for more writers portraits and, at least, one gallery of images.O
Or, maybe two.....
Martha: Trinity Of The Chosen
Debut novel by Birmingham writer, musician, CS Evans has haunting Edinburgh beginnings and epilogue. Recently submitted to The University Of Edinburgh James Tait Black...
2016 Edinburgh International Book Festival – 16th August p.m.
For an unprecedented third day in a row our photographer attended the various photo calls at the EIBF. Highlights of today's list were Jackie...
2016 Edinburgh International Book Festival – 16th August
Another day, another tranche of authors. Frederick Forsyth and Edna O'Brien were the big names on the grey carpet today. Ian Rankin seemed to come...
2016 Edinburgh International Book Festival – 15th August, p.m.
Not quite as 'live' as the a.m. post, but much (much) busier.....
2016 Edinburgh International Book Festival – 15th August, a.m.
It's that time of year again when the ER's photographer sets up camp in Charlotte Square gardens for a few days to bring some...
Beyond Borders International Festival of Literature and Thought
Beyond Borders summer events programme will be hosted at Traquair House and several other venues across the Borders and Edinburgh from 27-28 August 2016.
The programme will include a...
Edinburgh writer shortlisted for major international writing award
Edinburgh-based writer Russell Jones has been shortlisted for a major international writing prize. The Half the World Global Literati Award comes with a prize...
Secret Edinburgh Launch – Blackwells South Bridge – Thursday 2nd June 2016
Part of the Secret City series, Hannah Robinson introduced her new title, Secret Edinburgh, at Blackwell’s South Bridge last Thursday. The filmmaker and screenwriter...
Debut series of books by Edinburgh author Danny Scott
An action packed new series of six chapter books (10,000 words) by debut Edinburgh author Danny Scott is about to hit the shops.
The books follow the adventures of...
Spanish author Carlos Castán reads Don Quixote
Saturday 23rd April was a busy day for the book calendar - the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death and World Book Night.
At Summerhall that evening, however,...
Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowships for three Edinburgh writers
Edinburgh-based author Lucy Ribchester, poet and performer Rachel McCrum and journalist and non-fiction writer Claire Prentice have today been named by Scottish Book Trust as three of four recipients...
Danny Weston – My Edinburgh Inspirations
Danny Weston is the Edinburgh-based author of four novels, and was today announced as the winner of the Older Readers (12-16 yrs) category of...
Edinburgh-based author wins at The Scottish Children’s Book Awards
Danny Weston, the Edinburgh-based author of four novels, was today announced as the winner of the Older Readers (12-16 yrs) category of the Scottish Children’s Book Awards...
Edinburgh International Book Festival Booked! – Irvine Welsh and ‘Begbie’
The hot ticket for April will almost certainly be the author Irvine Welsh along with actor Robert Carlyle (otherwise Francis Begbie in Transporting).
Welsh's novel was...
Terry Gilliam unveils neon sign in the Old Town
Former Python star Terry Gilliam is well-known for quoting Don Quixote and today he came to Edinburgh to unveil a 10 metre long neon...
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