Books
| 03 August 2009
15 August, 11.30am
The Edinburgh novelist kicks off the Meet the Author series, talking about When Will There Be Good News?, her latest PI Jackson Brodie story.
| 03 August 2009
30 August, 3.30pm and 9.30pm
Two chances to see the Book Festival favourite, first in St John's Church where she'll be performing music and song, then back in Charlotte Square where she'll be talking about her new novel The Year of the Flood.
| 03 August 2009
27 August, 3pm
The much-loved broadcaster waited until her mid-70s before branching out into fiction. Here she talks to Sheena McDonald about youthful exuberance, wartime patriotism and All the Nice Girls.
| 03 August 2009
17 August, 6.30pm
A festival favourite, Banks alternates between mainstream novels and science fiction. Expect to see both sides of his personality on show today.
| 03 August 2009
15 August, 7pm
Best known for washing other people's dirty laundry in public, the celebrated newspaper profile-writer has turned her attention on her own parents and their complicity in a relationship with an unsuitable older man when she was just 16.
| 03 August 2009
25 August, 8pm
The wife of the ex-prime minister takes the chance to tell her side of the story in Speaking for Myself, an account of her journey from working-class Liverpool to the top of the legal profession.
| 03 August 2009
29 August, 11.30am
As he steps down from The South Bank Show, the Book Festival favourite talks about his latest decade-straddling novel Remember Me.
| 03 August 2009
26 August, 8pm
The comic chronicler of contemporary life talks about his latest novel, Pandaemonium, in which a secret military experiment threatens to unleash the forces of hell on a group of Glasgow teenagers.
| 03 August 2009
24 August, 8pm
Recently the acting leader of the Liberal Democrats has seemed like a lone voice of reason in an imploding House of Commons. Here he talks about the economic crisis and singles out those he believes are to blame.
| 03 August 2009
28 August, 6.30pm
The Olympic gold medallist knows a thing or two about coming first and in The Winning Mind he tells us how to prepare ourselves for success.
| 03 August 2009
30 August, 8pm
The Generation X author now gives us Generation A, set in the near future where bees are thought to be extinct until five people are stung on the same day.
| 03 August 2009
31 August, 6.30pm
The champion of atheism, committed Darwinist and despiser of intelligent design is guaranteed to be one of the most outspoken Book Festival guests.
| 03 August 2009
28 August, 7.30pm
Reading from his novel My Epileptic Lurcher, the Scottish novelist, poet and playwright is guaranteed to entertain.
| 03 August 2009
17 August, 11.30pm
The celebrated author looks back on her life in terms of that most British of pastimes, the jigsaw puzzle.
| 03 August 2009
15 August, 8pm
All eyes are on the much-loved poet now she's landed the post of Poet Laureate – and is already making provocative observations about the state of the nation. Catch her also doing a children's show on the Fringe.
| 03 August 2009
22 August, 4.30pm
The former director of the National Theatre talks to Magnus Linklater about the interviews he conducted with 40 leading stage figures in Talking Theatre.
| 03 August 2009
31 August, 11.30am
It's 40 years since Fraser wrote her biography of Mary Queen of Scots. She's back at the Book Festival to promote a special anniversary edition.
| 03 August 2009
19 August, 4.30pm
Famed not only for his graphic novels, but also his Newberry Medal-winning The Graveyard Book, Gaiman gives an insight into his vivid imagination. See him also with Ian Rankin on 20 August.
| 03 August 2009
20 August, 11.30am
The brilliant author of The Trick is to Keep Breathing looks back on her Ayrshire childhood in the 1960s, growing up in a one-parent family and finding her artistic voice.
| 03 August 2009
16 August, 8pm
The comedian has made a name for himself by getting involved in elaborate schemes such as meeting lots of other Dave Gormans. Most recently he's been at large in non-corporate America, seeking out the last remaining pockets of independence.
More Articles...
- Alasdair Gray
- Alex Gray and Denise Mina
- Jackie Kay
- Garrison Keillor
- Al Kennedy, Ian Rankin, and James Robertson
- James Kelman
- Tom Kitchin
- Liz Lochhead
- Alexander McCall Smith
- Jeremy Paxman
- Griff Rhys Jones
- Gerald Scarfe
- Will Self
- Antony Sher
- Andrew Simms and Graham Turner
- David Simon
- Frank Skinner
- Arthur Smith
- Irvine Welsh
- Shirley WIlliams
