Tag: Edinburgh International Book Festival
2011 Book of the Year Shortlist includes Edinburgh-based Stewart Conn
Four talented authors, including one who is Edinburgh-based, have been shortlisted for Scotland’s largest literary prize, the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book of the Year Award, in partnership with Creative Scotland.
Stewart Conn who lives...
Edinburgh International Book Festival teams up with The Guardian
The Edinburgh International Book Festival and Guardian News & Media (GNM) have announced a two-year media partnership.Through the comprehensive sponsorship deal, readers of the Guardian and The Observer and the guardian.co.uk/books site...
It’s official! Top Ten Family-friendly cities includes Edinburgh
Edinburgh has been voted among the top ten family-friendly cities in Europe according to Internet travel website Trip Advisor. In fact it was positioned at number Two! Our fair city was pipped at the...
Edinburgh Job – Head of Press at The Pleasance
A neat little job from the beginning of May in London and from the end of July in Edinburgh. The advert is on the Arts Council England's website. The job is advertised there as...
Fire possibly caused by electric blanket
A fire in a three storey blocks of flats in Edinburgh, which led to three people being taken to hospital, may have been caused by an electric blanket fire chiefs said this week.Six people,...
Book Festival closes with tribute to Morgan
The Edinburgh International Festival public programme closed last night with a moving tribute to Scotland’s first national poet, Edwin Morgan who died last week. Richard Holloway chaired the final event in ...
Elsewhere launched at Book Festival
The Minister for Culture, Fiona Hyslop, today launched a programme of brand new writing celebrating the best of Scottish, international and children’s words and ideas at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. With the support...
Tribute to Edwin Morgan
Commenting on the sad news of the death of Edwin Morgan, Nick Barley, Director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival said “As well as being one of the greatest British poets of the last...
Peter Mandelson at The Book Festival
He’s been called many things by the British Press – Mandy; The Prince of Darkness, and more recently The Dark Lord. He was the architect behind the re-branding of New Labour, and served two...
Edinburgh International Book Festival opens to crowds
The Edinburgh International Book Festival opened on Saturday to record crowds and capacity audiences for most events. Christos Tsiolkas, one of the ten authors longlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize who will...
