Last day of the Edinburgh International Book Festival and I didn’t quite know what to expect from Colm Tóibín and Philippe Sands discussing ‘Remembering the Dirty War’. It was high…

The penultimate day of the Edinburgh International Book Festival was still full of plenty of events and big names. Amongst reports of the heartache of Fringe shows’ audience numbers ‘falling…

Colm Tóibín (The News From Dublin) is appearing in several events at this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival, and what a joy that is. He’s an absolute treasure, but would…

A different venue and a different sort of ‘event’ on Day 13 of the Book Festival led me to Greyfriars Kirk and an evening of spoken word and music. Len…

Just Russell Tovey today. “Just”? No way! Beautifully chaired by writer and critic Barry Pierce, this was the perfect antidote to the sadness surrounding the loss of the incomparable Dolly…