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Edinburgh International Book Festival 2020 – what’s on today
The Edinburgh International Book Festival is taking place in Edinburgh and is being beamed around the world with the benefit of technology from a...
Edinburgh International Book Festival 2020 – what’s on today
The Edinburgh International Book Festival 2020 is Keeping the Conversation Going, and doing it powerfully well with some great authors.
Although you can watch...
Edinburgh International Book Festival 2020 – all the fun but no tents
The book festival will give Charlotte Square a rest this year, but it will go ahead online.
The good news is that all events...
All Edinburgh Festivals cancelled in 2020
Now we know that these are very strange times indeed.
Our Edinburgh Festivals which bring such life and brightness to Edinburgh each summer in...
New hire at the Book Festival
Tamara Zimet has been appointed as Deputy Programme Director at the Edinburgh International Book Festival and will take up her new role at the...
365 : Stories + Music – collaborative creation for Celtic Connections and beyond
Combining the creative work of author James Robertson and folk musician Aidan O'Rourke this performance at Celtic Connections in January 2020 is only one...
Edinburgh International Book Festival 2019: Yasha Levine
Are you reading this on your phone? Did you click through to the article via a social media platform? Can you imagine life for...
Edinburgh International Book Festival – Ruth Davidson
Dame Katherine Grainger interviewed the Rt Hon Ruth Davidson this evening at the Book Festival - although during the conversation it became apparent that...
Rory Stewart is coming to Edinburgh International Book Festival
A couple of additional events are announced today including an appearance by Conservative MP Rory Stewart who will come to Charlotte Square Garden to...
Edinburgh International Book Festival 2019 – We Need to Find New Stories
This year against an uncertain political backdrop and when the world is full of discussion online and off line, The Edinburgh International Book Festival...
Citizen at North Edinburgh Arts in May
There will be two activity days at North Edinburgh Arts in May thanks to Edinburgh International Book Festival.
On 9 and 11 May there...
Edinburgh International Book Festival announce Citizen
The Edinburgh International Book Festival today announced the next phase of its year-round programme taking the Book Festival On The Road.
Following on from the...
Edinburgh International Book Festival – public programme now finished for this year
Its almost over for another year. Yesterday was the last public day of The Edinburgh International Book Festival. Now they look forward to welcoming...
Edinburgh International Book Festival – Dracula v Frankenstein this Sunday evening
Dracula vs Frankenstein The Night of the Literary Living Dead, at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
Does every age get the monster it deserves? The creature...
Pupils interview David Walliams at Book Festival
Author and comedian David Walliams faced five interviewers today at his only Book Festival interview when he met pupils from the Royal Blind School...
Edinburgh International Book Festival 2018 – Mercurial Muriel’s Sparkling Script
Muriel Spark’s Doctors of Philosophy
Our friends at The Edinburgh International Book Festival and Royal Lyceum Theatre proudly present Doctors of Philosophy, Muriel Spark’s only work...
2018 Edinburgh International Book Festival – the big names
It can be a little overwhelming when confronted by 4 press releases, 3 programme directors and one (very nice) breakfast.
Having had just a little...
The Edinburgh International Book Festival 2018: Freedom
Freedom: ‘the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants.’
We all agree with that – don’t we? But how do our...
2018 Edinburgh International Book Festival – Freedom to Think
The overarching theme of this year’s festival is freedom. Freedom of speech is one of the basic human rights, as is freedom of movement...
‘Dead Man’s Trousers’ to Launch in Leith
Latest Instalment of Trainspotting Trilogy to be Launched at Book Festival Event in Leith
Irvine Welsh will launch his new book, Dead Men’s Trousers, at a...
Dynamic New Zealand writers feature at Edinburgh International Book Festival
New Zealand writers making waves at home and abroad are presenting their work and participating in this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival.
Participation in the...
Edinburgh International Book Festival: On the Money – Celebrating Nan Shepherd
We are (not terribly comfortably, it must be said) seated in the Bosco Theatre, a wooden tent in the middle of George Street. Outside...
Edinburgh International Book Festival 2017 : Malachy Tallack and Barry Smith – Uncovering the...
'Most people live on a lonely island
Lost in the middle of a foggy sea.
Most people long for another island
One where they know they will...
Edinburgh International Book Festival: Will Self and Richard Sennett – Draughtsmen Drafting
‘I’ve always wondered why I find suburbs sexy’
Although the novelist, academic and former bad boy of journalism, Will Self, claims now to like suburbs, he...
Edinburgh International Book Festival – Day 1
The tents are up, the stages are set and the mikes tested.
The Edinburgh International Book Festival begins tomorrow on 12 August 2017 with 1,000...
Edinburgh International Book Festival – bringing New Zealand to Edinburgh
What do you think of when someone mentions New Zealand (Aotearoa)? Sheep? Fjords? Mountains? Outdoorsy types who’re good at rugby?
Do you think of literature,...
The 2017 Edinburgh International Book Festival : Brave New Words
'We are living', said Nick Barley, ' in an age of political earthquakes'
The Director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival was speaking at the launch of...
Edinburgh International Book Festival News
EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL’S OUTRIDERS TAKE FIVE JOURNEYS ACROSS THE AMERICAS
Edinburgh International Book Festival organisers have announced details of Outriders, an exciting new project where...
Edinburgh International Book Festival – winner of the First Book Award announced
The Edinburgh International Book Festival proves that there is more to it than a few weeks in Charlotte Square Garden in the summer.
YA Author...
Jeffrey Archer will be in Edinburgh in November – tickets on sale today
Jeffrey Archer, former politician and prolific author will speak at an exclusive Edinburgh International Book Festival event in the capital next month. This is...
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