Tag: Edinburgh International Book Festival
Edinburgh International Book Festival – Stuart David and Ian Rankin
Belle and Sebastian, Scotland’s best-loved indie band, was founded by Stuart Murdoch and bass player Stuart David, recording albums such as Tigermilk. David left the band in 2000 to focus on side project Looper...
Edinburgh International Book Festival: Jim Crumley and Adam Thorpe
'Symbols of hope in an uncivilised world'
So says Jim Crumley, and for the moment he's not talking about sea eagles or wolves. No, the acclaimed nature writer is talking about us - the audience...
Edinburgh International Book Festival – 26th August
A flying visit to the EIBF yesterday, but did manage to capture two of the current crime-fiction favourites, Alex Gray and Yrsa Sigurdardottir. And, as Greg Proops was waiting in the wings for his turn...
Edinburgh International Book Festival – 25th August
Slightly quicker off the mark with yesterday's authors. Amongst those visiting the photographers yesterday were Edwin Collins, Ian Rankin, Festival Director Nick Barley and ex-MI5 head, Stella Rimington.
Edinburgh International Book Festival – 24th August
Yesterday's included Roy Hattersley and the hyperactive Norwegian crime-writer, Jussi Adler-Olsen
Edinburgh International Book Festival: Museums and Libraries – Spaces for Literacy
Tony Marx, the President of the New York Public Library, likes to tell a story about Polish telephone directories; it's a story a colleague told him when he suggested getting rid of a roomful...
Edinburgh International Book Festival: Mary’s Meals – The Shed that Fed a Million Children
'We believe in the goodness of people...Mary's Meals is a series of lots of little acts of love' (Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow)
Many organisations start life at a kitchen table; more than a few have probably started...
Edinburgh International Book Festival: 2015 Siobhan Dowd Trust Lecture
Matt Haig almost didn't get asked to deliver this lecture at all.
When Tony Bradman (Chairman) and Kate Powling (Director) of the Siobhan Dowd Trust started to think about someone to follow in Patrick Ness's illustrious footsteps...
Edinburgh international Book Festival – 20th August
Latest gallery of authors, with these ones attending the Book Festival at various times on the 20th August
Seeing Visions and Hearing Voices: Richard Holloway at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
Richard Holloway is 81 years old and looks about 60. Nevertheless, the author, ex-Episcopal Bishop of Edinburgh, former chairman of the Scottish Arts Council and champion of causes from the Big Orchestra to LGBT...
Edinburgh International Book festival – Monday’s Authors
Another day, another selection of authors attending the Festival. Monday's line-up included Paul Merton, Nicholas Parsons and Julian Clary and our man at the Gardens was there to capture a few.
Edinburgh International Book Festival – Ali Smith warns against cutting back on public libraries
At the Edinburgh International Book Festival Scots author Ali Smith warned that the axing of public libraries by local authorities threatened the "democracy of reading" and would have an impact on the next generation of...
Alan Little to become Chair of Edinburgh Book Festival Board
The Chair of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Lady Susan Rice has announced that she will be stepping down in October 2015 after 14 years in the position. Alan Little BBC Special Correspondent will...
Edinburgh International Book Festival 2015: Around the World – with Two Goats
'What unites us', says Janet Smyth, 'is our stories.'
Janet, Edinburgh International Book Festival Children and Education Programme Director, is speaking at the launch of the 2015 programme, and what a programme it is. As...
People’s Postcode Lottery helps the Book Festival expand
Funding from the People's Postcode Lottery will help the book festival reach even more people next year.
The Edinburgh International Book Festival announced today that, thanks to generous support of £175,000 from players of People’s...
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Survey of parents in the Edinburgh & Lothians reveals 47 per cent have at some point been concerned about school facilities
ScottishPower Foundation will celebrate its partnership with Edinburgh International...
Book Festival shortlisted for award
The ScottishPower Foundation has today announced that The Edinburgh International Book Festival is in the running to win an accolade at the inaugural ScottishPower Foundation Awards.
The Edinburgh International Book Festival has been nominated in...
The Edinburgh International Book Festival – Irma Kurtz: My Life in Agony
In the end it's all about love, or at least that's what Irma Kurtz says, and she should know.
Irma has been Cosmopolitan UK's agony aunt for over forty years. She used to get long...
Edinburgh International Book Festival in Photos – Take 3
Another selection of authors from the Book Festival, this time from Tuesday's guest list at Charlotte Square. The Festival runs until the 25th August.
The Edinburgh International Book Festival – Bonnie Greer
Author, playwright and critic, Bonnie Greer spoke to an enthralled audience at the Edinburgh International Book Festival this week about her upbringing in Chicago, her political activism and the current turbulent situation in Missouri...
The Edinburgh International Book Festival: Books That Win
If you're buying a book for a teenager, how do you know where to start? Are you sometimes taken aback by the content of Young Adult fiction? Do you ask a bookseller, read reviews, simply...
Edinburgh International Book Festival in Photos – Take 2
Another selection of authors from the Book Festival, this time from Friday's guests at Charlotte Square. The Book Festival runs for another week.
Edinburgh International Book Festival – Jura Unbound
Simon Napier-Bell, Dan Willson and The Jellyman’s Daughter will appear At Born To Be Wide Talk Show at The Edinburgh International Book Festival. Veteran artist manager and author, Simon Napier-Bell, is set to make his Scottish...
the Edinburgh International Book Festival – Ghost ships and Nature’s Power
Top author Rebecca Hunt’s gripping novel ‘Everland’ relates the story of two Antarctic Expeditions.
One is the tragic tale of a failed expedition of 1913, the members of which have now passed into legend, and...
Today at Edinburgh International Book Festival in photos
Our man about the Festivals with a camera, John Preece, was in Charlotte Square Garden today.
There are many many authors on the invitation list so he picked a selection for you from the staged...
The Edinburgh International Book Festival: graphic novels for healing
Imagine being told you have third stage cancer.
Now imagine you are only 31 when you are told this.
And now imagine you are already four months pregnant.
All of this happened to Matilda Tristram. Matilda was...
Edinburgh International Book Festival – new dialogue events
The overarching theme of this year's Book Festival is Let's Talk - and the latest events announced today are going to be talked about as well as listened to.
The Edinburgh International Book Festival’s vibrant...
Edinburgh International Book Festival 2014 – crime writers
Scotland seems to breed outstanding crime writers, but other countries are catching up fast - from Norway to Niagara Falls, new talent is emerging everywhere. And crime fiction has at last become a respected...
Booking for Edinburgh International Book Festival opens tomorrow
Tickets for the 2014 Edinburgh International Book Festival go on general sale at 8.30am tomorrow Tuesday 24 June 2014. Find out more about how to book below our video interviews with director, Nick Barley, children's...
Top events at the 2014 Edinburgh Book Festival for young adults
'Today's teenagers don't read books'
'Teenagers can't concentrate, it's all that gazing at Facebook'
Comments we've all heard, or even made. Total nonsense. Young adult fiction is one of the fastest-growing areas in 21st century publishing:...
