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Audio – Edinburgh International Book Festival – RNIB launch book today
It numbered Sir Winston Churchill, the Beatles, Laurel and Hardy, Mae West, Alice Cooper, Roy Rogers and his horse Trigger among its guests. It...
Edinburgh International Book Festival – Val McDermid and Sue Black
An event featuring a crime fiction writer and a professor of forensic anthropology would not immediately strike you as a possible comedy double-act, but...
More mystery book sculptures appear!
Twelve months to the day since the mysterious paper sculptures were dropped off at the Edinburgh International Book Festival and the Edinburgh UNESCO City...
Edinburgh International Book Festival – Gordon Brown
The latest well kent face to arrive in the Charlotte Square Garden today is former Prime Minister, Gordon Brown. His session is a complete...
Edinburgh International Book Festival – A L Kennedy
There was nothing wrong with what AL Kennedy said at all, just that it was a bit difficult to hear anything she said, owing...
Edinburgh Napier students introduce poetry slam at the Book Festival
Three Edinburgh Napier students are coming to the Book Festival on Wednesday to try and popularise their poetry. The new event which they are...
Edinburgh International Book Festival – Hans Köchler
Was there a cover up over the Lockerbie Bomber?
“Eight senior Scottish judges got it wrong, but the question is why? It is not because...
Writers Conference revived after 50 years at Edinburgh International Book Festival
The Edinburgh International Book Festival has announced the delegates who will attend sessions in the Edinburgh World Writers’ Conference this August. The Edinburgh events...
Egyptian writer Ahdaf Soueif to come the Book Festival
EMINENT EGYPTIAN WRITER AHDAF SOUEIF CONFIRMS HER APPEARANCE AT THE EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL
Following concerns that Ahdaf Soueif would be unable to leave Egypt due to the current political...
Edinburgh International Book Festival 2012 launched today
Ian Rankin celebrates 25 years of Rebus as well as giving a sneak preview of his new novel; poet Alice Oswald gives a rare...
Course for playwrights at McDonald Road Library
The McDonald Road Library in Leith is offering budding Edinburgh playwrights an opportunity to grab a place at its free ‘How to be a Playwright’ event....
Jackie Kay wins Scottish Book of the Year
Creative Scotland is delighted to announce that award winning poet and author, Jackie Kay, has been awarded the 2011 Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book...
The Edinburgh International Book Festival 13-29 August 2011
17 days of homage to books and authors starts today in Charlotte Square.
We have to hope that the rain will not have turned the...
Book of the Year candidates now available to blind
Creative Scotland, the national body for the arts, screen and creative industries, is delighted to announce that this year’s Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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