Tag: Edinburgh International Book Festival 2018

MP for East Dunbartonshire Jo Swinson will give a talk tonight at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on eliminating gender inequality.Following the publication of her book Equal Power in February, Jo will be talking...

What with other stuff to do, the weather, life the universe and everything getting in the way, we, eventually, made a second - well, third-ish - trip into Charlotte Square to catch up with...

‘West Texas is a pretty hard place to be a vampire.’ (Andy Davidson)The days of every vampire story being set in Transylvania may be long gone, but Texas is a long, long way from...

In 2016 Graeme Macrae Burnet’s novel His Bloody Project was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. On Saturday he was in the new Spark Theatre at Edinburgh International Book Festival, talking to Roland Gulliver (EIBF...

After a few misfires early on, there was a bit more action today on the grey carpet. Despite a bit of rain, a fair number of attending writers made the long walk 'down the...

He came. He saw. He got the tram back home.Unfortunately, the weather, having been fantastic for ages, decided that enough was enough and brought Edinburgh's various Festivals a bit of damp, miserable -...

It is very easy in life to be dismissive of those who don't speak your language, but it would be very hard to dismiss Kenyan, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. He is a storyteller who envelopes you...

Edinburgh International Book Festival - the 2018 Unbound Programme The Unbound strand of events at the Edinburgh International Book Festival gives authors, musicians, poets and performers free rein to present their work and ideas on stage...