William Letford & Sean Borodale – Working Poets
The Skinny’s second event at the Book Festival will feature two poets who hold down other jobs: Sean Borodale and William Letford

The Skinny’s second event at the Book Festival will feature two poets who hold down other jobs: Sean Borodale and William Letford

The Skinny’s first sponsored event at this year's Book Festival will feature the near-legendary Glaswegian comics writer Grant Morrison...

What will Mark Haddon's talk be about? Let's speculate

Conceived and commissioned by the Book Festival, published by an international dream team of Cargo and McSweeney's, Elsewhere brings together celebrated authors from around the world in a four volume...

This year Unbound features events from three different literary nations, Iceland, Ireland and the Netherlands. We take a closer look at what you can expect from each

In which your correspondent tries to interview a gaggle of the Scottish Book Trust’s Writers, but loses the battle when they commence interviewing one another

Words per Minute is the Glasgow-based event which focuses on spoken word, but also can include music, film and other types of performance. The trick is that performers only get...

Become Unbound every night from 12-27 August in The Guardian Spiegeltent in Charlotte Square Gardens, as part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival. All the events are FREE, and no...

Unbound is back for a third year, offering a programme of free, nightly events of stories, performance and music. Roland Gulliver, Programme Manager of the the Edinburgh International Book Festival,...

New event, new publisher, new book... what's going on?

Last year at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, James Robertson aired his Megrahi conspiracy, former CIA officer Michael Scheuer was heckled by a protestor and Gary Tank Commander made a...

Comic book writer, film-maker, magazine publisher and festival curator Mark Millar is to the comic book world what Rupert Murdoch is to the media (only less evil). We speak to...

Ewan Morrison is the acclaimed author of a trilogy of novels – Swung, Distance and Menage – about alternative sexuality. And so naturally he's followed these up with an examination...

Jonah Lehrer is a writer and neuroscientist whose work bridges the gap between art and science by exploring creativity through science

It’s a big year for Irvine Welsh – Filth is being filmed with James McAvoy, a film taken from, and titled, Ecstasy, is being released in the UK. But biggest...

How best to preview the programme at this year's StAnza Poetry Festival? There's no way we can cover all the highlights. So here are a few, but written in verse....

February 2012: Many people are reported to be excited about the Margins Book and Music Festival this month, as the start of this festival approaches

On 27 February, there will be a talk with critic Geoff Dyer, about the 1979 Russian film Stalker followed by a screening of that film. But what is it? Why...

Be glad we didn’t go with the headline ‘To e or not to e’. Here’s a mercifully brief bit about ‘the future of books’, with some e-book recommendations afterward. You...

Whether it's someone you know well or someone you find hard to buy for, books are always a good gift solution, because they're cheap(ish), portable and usually available in all...