2015 Edinburgh International Book Festival

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2015 Edinburgh International Book Festival

The Literacy Revolution at Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest)

According to UNESCO, every region of the world during the last 20 years has seen gains in...

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Monica Cantieni & Sunjeev Sahota at Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest)

Monica Cantieni’s The Encyclopaedia of Good Reasons, translated by Donal McLaughlin, tells the...

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Monica Cantieni & Sunjeev Sahota at Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest)

Monica Cantieni’s The Encyclopaedia of Good Reasons, translated by Donal McLaughlin, tells the...

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SJ Watson at Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest)

Honesty is Not the Best Policy in Crime Fiction S J Watson can count Dennis Lehane and Lionel...

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Edwyn Collins & Grace Maxwell with Ian Rankin at Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest)

‘Moving beyond words’ was one critic’s response to The Possibilities Are Endless, a documentary...

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Ziauddin Sardar at Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest)

The Future of Mecca Born in Pakistan and raised in Hackney, Ziauddin Sardar is one of the most...

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Reading the City at Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest)

How do you navigate Edinburgh as a city of literature? Is there a map? Hosted by Edinburgh UNESCO...

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Tom McCarthy at Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest)

Is Tom McCarthy a J G Ballard for the 21st century? Or is he just bullshitting? McCarthy would...

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Matt Haig at Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest)

Award-winning author Siobhan Dowd died in 2007, bequeathing her royalties to a trust which aims...

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Museums and Libraries at Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest)

Museums and galleries dominate as destinations, attracting record numbers of visitors to...

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Meera Syal at Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest)

Acclaimed actor, screenwriter and author of Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee, Meera Syal returned to...

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Kirstin Innes & Melinda Nadj Abonji at Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest)

Two novels which tackle issues of work and family head on. Kirstin Innes’ Fishnet takes us deep...

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Joe Sumner & Evie Wyld at Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest)

Evie Wyld is fast shooting to international fame as a novelist. Already the winner of Australia’s...

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Greg Proops at Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest)

Greg Proops is well-known for his appearances on the improv comedy show Whose Line Is It Anyway?...

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Johann Hari at Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest)

It’s a century since drugs were first banned in the United States, thus unleashing a war against...

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Why I Call Myself a Feminist at Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest)

In this event entitled “a Rally, a Rant, a Story, a Song, a Protest, a Poem”, women – and men –...

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Chigozie Obioma & Simon Sylvester at Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest)

Chigozie Obioma’s thrillingly assured debut novel The Fishermen is set in small-town Nigeria,...

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Ryan Gattis and Marlon James at Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest)

Images of the 1992 LA riots were beamed across the world as six days of violence left a city...

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Hyeonseo Lee at Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest)

As a child of Kim Il-sung’s North Korea, a teenage Hyeonseo Lee believed the Dear Leader was her...

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Nicola Morgan at Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest)

What is the 21st Century Doing to Our Teenagers? Nicola Morgan, author of Blame My Brain and The...

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