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Edinburgh International Book Festival – Julian Baggini: The Book of Coffee
Most coffee events involve tasting notes, a few technical terms and a hot drink at the end.
Author and philosopher Julian Baggini's session at...
Edinburgh International Book Festival- Anthony Seldon: The Brexit Effect
That an author appearing at a book festival has written something worth reading is usually taken for granted. Whether they can hold a large...
The Edinburgh International Book Festival 2026 – Philippe Sands: Ten Years of East West...
Philippe Sands, the international human rights lawyer, academic and author, has a gift for making complex subjects accessible without losing sight of the people...
The Edinburgh International Book Festival 2026 – Mariana Mazzucato: The Common Good Economy
Mariana Mazzucato's performance was, as her 'discussant', Benny Higgins, put it, a tour de force.
In about 25 minutes at the Edinburgh International Book...
Cabinet Secretary opens the 2026 Edinburgh International Book Festival – Gala Opening night
This was an excellent evening at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, now firmly at home in the Edinburgh Futures Institute, where the largest space...
EIBF – Samira Ahmed – The Beatles A Hard Day’s Night
For Samira Ahmed, A Hard Day’s Night is much more than a Beatles film.
It's a document of a country changing before its eyes,...
Edinburgh International Book Festival – Simple Minds – “the band I never left”
It is a beautiful day in Kelvingrove, Glasgow, and Derek Forbes is showing me the artefacts of a life in music.
There are gold...
Wifi free audiobook player to be sold during the Edinburgh International Book Festival
Voxblock, the screen-free, wifi-free audiobook player for children, will be sold at the Waterstones shop on the Edinburgh Book Festival site from 15 August...
All the big names coming to Edinburgh International Book Festival
Crime novelist, John Grisham, has been announced as a special guest at the Edinburgh International Book Festival (EIBF) in August.
The festival in the Edinburgh...
Douglas Stuart among the stars appearing at this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival
THE EDINBURGH International Book Festival has announced the Front List for the upcoming festival in August, with Douglas Stuart, author of the Booker Prize-winning Shuggie...
Schools Programme announced for Edinburgh International Book Festival 2026
The Edinburgh International Book Festival is launching its Schools Programme as Scotland marks the National Year of Reading in 2026.
The Festival, which runs from...
Edinburgh International Book Festival: Suzanne O’Sullivan: The Age of Diagnosis
Health screening is good, right? We’re encouraged to get ourselves checked for everything from high blood pressure to cancers, various. But what if some...
Edinburgh International Book Festival: Lindsey Hilsum and Edward Wong
As part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival's The Front List series (run in partnership with Underbelly) Lindsey Hilsum and Edward Wong discussed the state...
The Edinburgh International Book Festival – small changes this year
The Edinburgh International Book Festival (EIBF) 2025 will be held at the Edinburgh Futures Institute on Lauriston Place where the festival has now made...
Val will keep on writing
Crime writer Val Mcdermid has revealed she wants to write novels for the rest of her life, like Ruth Rendell and PD James.
The Tartan...
Book Festival responds to authors over Baillie Gifford sponsorship
A group of 50 authors have written to the Edinburgh International Book Festival (EIBF) asking it to drop its major sponsor Baillie Gifford over...
Book Festival ‘Outriders’ to set off on four European journeys
Today (Wed. 21st Sept) the Edinburgh International Book Festival announced the launch of the third edition of Outriders, an exciting project that will see...
Edinburgh International Book Festival 2022 – a review
It was my first opportunity to fully absorb the book festival in its temporary site at the Edinburgh Art College.
Yes, it has a...
2022 hybrid presentations help make this year’s Book Festival a success
'All Together Now' was the overarching theme announced in June, and this year’s Book Festival saw families, adults and school pupils flock to the...
Edinburgh International Book Festival – Day 17
Yesterday (29th Aug) was the final day of Edinburgh's International Book Festival. Returning to the Edinburgh College of Art for a second year, it...
EIBF – Day 11 – Katherine Rundell
The poetry of John Donne feels as fresh, funny and radiantly beautiful in the 21st century as it must have done in the 17th....
EIBF – Day 7 – Graeme Macrae Burnet
When reading a novel, who can we trust to tell us the truth? Graeme Macrae Burnet’s new novel Case Study, set in mid-60s London, plays...
Edinburgh International Book Festival – Day 5 – Ricky Ross
Thursday's author was Deacon Blue's Ricky Ross, who was at Central Hall - a new venue for EIBF - publicising his book 'Walking Back...
Edinburgh International Book Festival – Day 5 – Vashti Bunyan
This year's EIBF is dispensing with the daily, multiple author photo calls and are limiting them to a few per day so there will...
Edinburgh International Book Festival 2022 – All Together Now
This year's book festival calls people to Edinburgh with the rallying call, All Together Now, ticking so many boxes in the first proper literary...
New, long-term home for Edinburgh International Book Festival announced
It was announced today that the Edinburgh International Book Festival will remain at the Edinburgh College of Art for this year and next,...
Dynamic and diverse free schools’ programme announced by EIBF 2022
Earlier today, the Edinburgh International Book Festival announced a free and fully hybrid line up of events for primary and secondary school pupils this...
Free tickets and books for all school kids at the 2022 Edinburgh International Book...
Thanks to the generosity of long-term Lead Sponsor, Baillie Gifford, the Edinburgh International Book Festival has been able to announce that this year’s Schools...
Calls go out for ‘Scotland’s Stories Now’ from Edinburgh International Book Festival
In response to Scotland’s Year of Stories 2022, Edinburgh International Book Festival today (Tue Feb 15th) announced a new project gathering and creating stories...
Edinburgh International Book Festival in new deal with The Bookseller
A new partnership between Edinburgh International Book Festival and trade publication The Bookseller will support the YA Book Prize which is the first in...
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