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Nicola Sturgeon and Louise Welsh send message to Rushdie from book festival

Nicola Sturgeon and best-selling author Louise Welsh have taken a moment during the Edinburgh International Book Festival to send a message of solidarity to Sir Salman Rushdie after he was attacked in the US. The pair appeared on the main stage at ...

15 Aug 2022 at 22:50

Organisers hail success of Edinburgh International Book Festival

This year’s hybrid Edinburgh International Book Festival was welcomed with an “overwhelmingly positive response”, organisers have said. The festival, which ended on Monday August 29, featured more than 600 events, 200 of which were livestreamed ...

30 Aug 2022 at 16:52

Winners of UK’s oldest literary prize revealed at book festival

The latest winners of the UK’s oldest book awards have been announced at a ceremony in Edinburgh. Writers Amit Chaudhuri and Keith Ridgway join the roll call of authors whose works have won the James Tait Black Prize, which is awarded annually ...

24 Aug 2022 at 22:01

Book festival to scale back and cut jobs amid challenging economic climate

The Edinburgh International Book Festival is to scale back its programme to weather “highly challenging” times amid the current economic climate and the impact of the pandemic. Festival chiefs also plan to drop live streaming of events after ...

18 Nov 2022 at 12:08

Scotland

Edinburgh International Book Festival announces new permanent home

A festival claimed to be the world’s largest public celebration of the written word has found a permanent home. The Edinburgh International Book Festival announced it will officially move to the University of Edinburgh’s Futures Institute ...

11 May 2022 at 01:25

Nicola Sturgeon praises Douglas Stuart novel after reading advance copy

Nicola Sturgeon has said that Booker prize winner Douglas Stuart is taking his place as “one of the greats of Scottish literature” as she praised his second novel. Scotland’s First Minister thanked the publisher for allowing her to read ...

15 Jan 2022 at 20:55

Hunt expected to announce £8.6m funding boost for Edinburgh’s festivals

Up to £8.6 million of funding for Edinburgh’s festivals is expected to be announced in the UK Government’s spring budget on Wednesday. Some of the funding may go towards creating a permanent headquarters for the Fringe festival, which ...

14 Mar 2023 at 13:54

Scotland

Brown wants Scottish and UK ministers to work together on ‘terrible’ poverty

The Scottish and UK governments are “stuck in a rut” when they should be working together to tackle “completely unacceptable” levels of poverty, former prime minister Gordon Brown has said. The one-time Labour leader spoke about the ...

23 Aug 2023 at 19:22

Scotland

Brown: Scottish and UK ministers must co-operate urgently to tackle poverty

Former prime minister Gordon Brown will insist there is an urgent need for ministers at Holyrood and Westminster to work together to tackle poverty, as a new poll found more than half of Scots think wrangling over the constitution ...

23 Aug 2023 at 17:00

Authors walk out of Edinburgh book festival event in protest at fossil fuel link

Authors have staged a walkout from the Edinburgh International Book Festival in protest at its links to “fossil fuel companies”. Author and climate activist Mikaela Loach interrupted her panel discussion on Saturday evening to ...

13 Aug 2023 at 17:14

Streeting speaks about ‘daunting’ prospect of being next UK health secretary

Wes Streeting has spoken about the “absolutely daunting” prospect of becoming health secretary if Labour wins the next general election. However, the shadow health and social care secretary insisted he would “relish” taking ...

13 Aug 2023 at 16:27

Scotland

Patients face up to five-year waits for some mental health services, GP claims

A GP has told how some patients can face waiting lists of four to five years for mental health treatment as he complained funding for such services had been “cut and cut and cut”. Dr Gavin Francis said that he referred a ...

28 Aug 2023 at 14:50

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