Book/Book Reviews

Janice Galloway Review
As Janice Galloway strode onstage in a flamboyant pink and black '50s dress and winked at the audien...
Will Self Review
What impresses most on hearing Will Self talk for an hour is the man's ability to maintain his sardo...
Mark Watson @ Book Festival Review
This year the International Book Festival have pulled off a coup, stealing Mark Watson from the funn...
Jenni Murray Review
Jenni Murray's new book, Memoirs of a not so dutiful daughter, tells of her turbulent relationship w...
Chuck Palahniuk Review
If you don't know the writing of Chuck Palahniuk, you should, you're missing out. His writing is dar...
Iain Banks Review
The much-loved grand master of the weird and the other-worldly, Iain (sometimes, ‘M'...) Banks...
Ian Rankin Review
The hero of the ‘Tartan Noir' returned to the Book Festival this year looking beyond the maver...



Alex James Review
  1. The self-confessed ‘second drunkest man in the drunkest band in the world' has traded in his rock-star lifestyle for this civilised corner of Charlotte Square, to talk of his autobiography A Bit...
Steven Berkoff Review
  1. Food and theatre are vastly more linked than one would think as celebrated actor, director and author Steven Berkoff demonstrates in his new book. My Life in Food tracks several memorable eating exper...
Tony Parsons Review
  1. Tony Parsons is clearly enamoured with Asia. He's set his latest novel, My Favourite Wife in China where a hard working British lawyer is lonely without his wife and small daughter and finds himself s...
Eoin Colfer Review
  1. “Hands up who's read one of my books?” asks Colfer to a full house on the first day of the Edinburgh International Book Festival. The response is about 80% to which the retort is that &lsq...

 

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