Artists & Designers: Fruit Tree Foundation Needs You! You may recall that last year the Fruit Tree Foundation brought together a stellar array of Scottish songwriting and recording talent to make an...
Fancy a bit of Literary Death Match?
The American singer/songwriter and guitarist — best known as the leading light behind alternative rock group Throwing Muses, as well as hardcore punk-influenced power trio 50 Foot Wave — comes...
Literary Death Match is a concept that combines literature with a gameshow element and somehow manages to make the end result something other than appalling – in fact, it makes...
Richard Wiseman is Professor of the Public Understanding of Psychology at University of Hertfordshire. But before that, he was a professional magician. He describes this transition as “pretty straightforward”
Sleepers is an independent Australian publishing house formed in 2003, who have gained a reputation for quality writing, and quality events, specifically their Sleepers Salon nights. Coming to the other...
Novels, Poetry, Theatre, Television, Screenplays... what else can Des Dillon do? Stand-up comedy, that's what!
Unbound events happen every night between 14 to 29 August in the Spiegeltent in Charlotte Square Gardens as part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival. All events listed below are...
The Book Festival might finally worked out how to keep audiences at Charlotte square past teatime
Jeanette Winterson Adopted by Pentecostal working-class parents, Winterson claims that she was “not encouraged to be clever.” Contrary to all expectations, she left home at 16 after falling in love...
Richard McGregor Richard McGregor states that a major theme of his latest book is “secrecy”. Having spent two decades reporting in Asia, the Financial Times’ China bureau chief has teased...
AL Kennedy, Tam Dean Burn and Somerset Maugham award winner Rodge Glass are invited by the organisers of DiScomBoBuLate to show what they can do in a new performance night...
Over a hundred events selling on the day tickets became available, but plenty of big-name events still have tickets available
Freedom of expression lies at the heart of the Fringe ethos – and it's something denied to millions around the world. Lee Bunce looks at Amnesty International's efforts to build...
The International Book Festival isn't Edinburgh's only literary offering this month. Ed Ballard checks out the bookish events taking place before the main event gets under way
Ten years after they made it famous on the Fringe, the Mighty Boosh choose an Edinburgh publisher to launch their first book...
Everything smart that Brad Pitt parroted in Fincher's Fight Club came straight from Palahniuk's keyboard
As the more established festivals begin to rest on their laurels, new competition arises for book lovers' attention
Keir Hind interviews Anne Donovan about her new book, and his PC’s spell checker will never forgive him...
The Edinburgh performance poetry scene’s longest-running night went out with a bang last month, as the mighty Big Word took a bow after a strong, thirteen year run that covered...
