Edinburgh Festivals
The Skinny guide to art, book and film festivals in Edinburgh. The latest previews, reviews and features.
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BooksEdinburgh International Book Festival: Christopher Brookmyre
The author of 17 novels in as many years, Christopher Brookmyre enjoys the attention of a packed tent tonight, visiting the Edinburgh Book Festival to talk a... Read more »| 21 Aug 2013 -
BooksEdinburgh International Book Festival: Can We Trust the Media?
The collapse of trust in the media is something that could be discussed all day it seems, particularly with Newsnight’s Gavin Esler and his pick of pan... Read more »| 21 Aug 2013 -
BooksEdinburgh International Book Festival: Andrew Marr
This appearance by one of the BBC’s finest journalists is among the most anticipated of this year’s Book Festival. This is after all Andrew Marr&... Read more »| 21 Aug 2013 -
BooksEdinburgh International Book Festival: Achmat Dangor
Edinburgh International Book Festival has a distinctly South African flavour this year. As well as this appearance from Achmat Dangor, there's a reading from... Read more »| 21 Aug 2013 -
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Simon Garfield
Simon Garfield is the author of On the Map, which charts the impact of maps on world history and on our daily lives. He takes his Edinburgh audience on a jou... Read more »| 21 Aug 2013 -
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Richard Holloway
Appearing before a full house at the Book Festival, Richard Holloway displays his customary common touch, common sense and uncommonly good way with words.&nb... Read more »| 21 Aug 2013
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Sam Byers & Angela Jackson
Sam Byers and Angela Jackson's debut novels are nominated for the Book Festival's First Book Award, alongside 42 other hopefuls. Byers' book Idiopathy tells ... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Doug Johnstone & Laura Lippman
Doug Johnstone is one of the rising stars of Scottish thriller writing, his novels characterised by their realistic, nuanced portrayals or ordinary people in... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Luke Wright & Michael Pedersen
Two poets who have made the leap from stage to page, defying the bias against performance poetry which still undeniably exists in the minds of academics and ... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Denise Mina
For Denise Mina, writing crime fiction has always been a political choice. Her novels are deeply suffused with a yearning for social justice; her characters ... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Neil Forsyth
Although he gained national fame in a recent TV adaptation (starring the actor Brian Cox, who also voiced the radio incarnation of Neil Forsyth's character),... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Ian Rankin
After the release last year of Standing in Another Man's Grave, Rebus fans were thrilled to see the curmudgeonly detective back on the trail of killers, gang... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Alasdair Gray
Predictably, the newspaper coverage of Alasdair Gray's talk at Edinburgh International Book Festival focuses on just a single word in a far-reaching and... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Muriel Spark, 50 years on
A mostly silver-haired audience was in attendance at the Baillie Gifford Main Theatre on Tuesday evening for a celebration of the 50th anniversary of Muriel ... Read more »| 16 Aug 2013 -
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: AL Kennedy, Toby Litt & Rachel Cusk
Hosted by Ian Jack, the chair of the Granta Best of Young British Novelists panel in 2003, the year AL Kennedy, Toby Litt and Rachel Cusk were all featured, ... Read more »| 16 Aug 2013