Tag: book festival

Stephen Hendry, Kate Humble & Neil Oliver open Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival on Thursday

Business

Deadline News Journalist - June 12, 2019

A BOOK festival launching this week will host a number of celebrities across the four-day event in the Borders. The Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival...

BOOK FESTIVAL – Ben Okri discusses his latest work and how Grenfell Tower broke his heart

Entertainment

Guest - August 19, 2018

BY JEAN WEST Philosopher, author, poet, spiritual journeyman and Booker prize-winner, Ben Okri, sees things differently than most of us. Our realities, he tells audiences at...

BOOKS – Call The Midwife Star’s Personal Generation Game

Entertainment

Jean West - August 25, 2017

EVENT: Stephen McGann - Flesh and Blood: A History of My Family in Seven Maladies (Simon and Schuster) VENUE: Baillie Gifford Main Theatre, Edinburgh International...

REVIEW – Fact easier than fiction as O’Farrell mines her multiple near death experiences

Entertainment

Jean West - August 23, 2017

EVENT: Maggie O’Farrell: This Must Be The Place (Tinder Press) VENUE: Baillie Gifford Tent, Edinburgh International Book Festival By JEAN WEST WHEN the already well-loved author Maggie O’Farrell...

Stellar tributes for a literary legend, Edwin Morgan, 90

Deadline News Journalist - August 19, 2010

By Michael MacLeod SCOTLAND’S literary giants have led the tributes to the nation’s Poet Laureate Edwin Morgan, who passed away this morning aged 90. The Glasgow-born...