How can we understand the past? It is a question that stretches from philosophy to biology, yet still seems infuriatingly unanswerable and is a problem that Max Adams is without doubt consumed by. The archaeologist-come-novelist has spent the past...
There was a lot at play as the lights dimmed in the Baillie Gifford Main Theatre. For starters this was the Edinburgh Book Festivals opening gambit; the first big name to be welcomed to the stage. Just shy of its 20th anniversary, the Edinburgh...
Monday, 24th August Chaired by Al Senter The Spiegeltent Perhaps best known amongst book fans as the author of The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, John Boyne is a versatile writer. Joining Al Senter in the wonderful Spiegeltent, Boyne was keen to...
Monday, August 24th Chaired by Al Senter Baillie Gifford Main Theatre This event was set to be a treat to any Beatles fans, and so it was. Mark Levisohn, one of the world’s leading historians on the now infamous group, joined up with writer...
The first week of the 2015 Edinburgh International Book Festival is now over, and as we go into to the second half of this two-week long literary party The Student gives you its last preview of the year. It’s definitely not too late to head down...
Once named “The Most Dangerous Woman in Britain” (a title now stolen from her by the First Minister of Scotland), Shami Chakrabarti still has enough energy and passion to scare even the most stoic politician. A former Home Office civil servant,...
August 18th and 20th Chaired by Jamie Jauncey and Janet Smyth Baillie Gifford Main Theatre In his home city of Edinburgh, Alexander McCall Smith needs little introduction. Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of Edinburgh and author of...