Tag: Edinburgh International Book Festival 2023

The author Joan Lingard was born in a taxi on Edinburgh's Royal Mile, but spent much of her childhood in Belfast, where her father worked on a Royal Navy training ship.In 1950 she...

Jeremy Deller isn’t afraid to tell it like it is; he’s been doing just that for over 30 years, making art works that challenge us all to think differently.Now he’s written a book...

I arrive much earlier than I usually would for Alice Oseman’s Edinburgh International Book Festival event. I know she’s popular and the tickets for this have been sold out for months.Nevertheless, I am confronted...

The poet Don Paterson says his Scottish identity only became apparent to him when he moved to London at the age of 20.Before that he’d crossed the border precisely once, for a ‘terrible’...