Books Festivals Third in the 2015 series of WriterStories. WriterStories : Louise Welsh and Mark Billingham
Books Festivals Second in the 2015 WriterStories series for TV transmission. WriterStories : Michael Rosen and Rob Doyle
Books Festivals One of a series of broadcast programme length compilation of interviews from the 2015 Edinburgh International Book Festival. WriterStories : Andrew O’Hagan and Andrew Cockburn
Festivals Mark Thomas explores the importance of public spaces, how we work and relate to each other in his Edinburgh Fringe play, ‘Trespass Work in Progress’. Trespass carries on from where Mark’s previous show 100 Acts of Minor Dissent left off. … Mark Thomas : Trespass Work in Progress
Speaking at this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival, author Ian Bell discusses his book Time Out of Mind, the second part of his documentation of the life and career of Bob Dylan. While not serving as a biography as such, … Ian Bell : Time Out of Mind
Writer and activist Cat Boyd, was interviewed in October for www.writerstories.tv at the Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair, held at the Out of the Blue Drill Hall. Boyd co-wrote ‘Scottish Independance: A Feminist Response’ with Jenny Morrison, which aims to explore … Cat Boyd : Scottish Independence – A Feminist Response
Angela Haggerty is a journalist, broadcaster and editor based in the west of Scotland and works at The Drum magazine and Common Weal. Haggerty was at the Radical Independence Conference, which was held in Glasgow, in November 2014, and saw … Angela Haggerty : Radical Independence Conference 2014
Writer and co-founder of the Radical Independence Campaign, Cat Boyd, talks at the Radical Independence Conference, which was held in Glasgow, in November 2014. The event saw an attendance of 3000 people, and talks from a number of speakers such … Cat Boyd : Radical Independence Conference 2014
Writer, poet, Neu Reekie founder and all round lyrical whizzkid Michael Pedersen is a recent recipient of the Scottish Book Trust’s Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship. Pedersen will spend a month at the Hôtel Chevillon International Arts Centre at Grez-sur-Loing in … Michael Pedersen : Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship 2015
Scots Makar, Liz Lochhead, talks about the importance of learning poems off by heart, illustrating her point with a snippet of Robert Burns’ poem A Man’s A Man For A’ That. Although going to Glasgow School of Art, and continuing … Liz Lochhead : Poems For The Heart
Polly Toynbee and David Walker appear at this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival to talk about their past critiques of British Parliament, their new work, which dissects David Cameron’s five years in Parliament, and their experience of writing together. Polly … Polly Toynbee and David Walker : Cameron’s Coup
Festivals In this edition of Writers Stories from the Edinburgh International Book Festival of 2003 Raj Chakraborti explores Don Delillo’s conceit that terrorists possess the place in our consciousness once occupied by novelists. Chakraborti’s interview with Tariq Ali draws insights into … Raj Chakraborti : Tariq Ali, George Monbiot and William Dalrymple
Books Iain Banks is a Scottish author of both mainstream fiction and science fiction, writing under the name Iain M. Banks for his science fiction work. At the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Robert Morgan talks to Iain Banks about his mainstream … Iain Banks : Edinburgh International Book Festival
Writer Malu Halasa talks to Giulia Trentacosti about what she’s doing at this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival. Along with Zaher Omareen & Nawara Mahfoud, Halasa co-edited Syria Speaks : Arts and Culture from the Frontline,which explores the work of … Malu Halasa : Syria Speaks – Arts and Culture from the Frontline
Books Festivals Seventh programme in the 2015 WriterStories series from the Edinburgh International Book Festival. WriterStories : Dorthe Nors and Caroline Criado-Perez
Books Festivals Edinburgh welcomes back one of Scotland’s most ferociously-talented writers. Andrew O’Hagan’s fifth novel, The Illuminations, weaves two linked stories together: the older woman, Anne Quirk, is a Scottish photographer struggling to keep hold of her memories, the younger man is … Andrew O’Hagan : The Illuminations
Books Ricky Brown interviews Doug Johnstone about his crime novels, writing process and the importance of setting at the Edinburgh Book Festival. Once a nuclear physicist, Doug Johnstone is now a successful writer and freelance journalist (and blogger) based in Edinburgh. In … Doug Johnstone : The Jump
Books Here Are the Young Men depicts life for four young men on the savage streets of Dublin. Rob Doyle was born in Dublin, and holds a first-class honours degree in Philosophy and an MPhil in Psychoanalysis from Trinity College Dublin. … Rob Doyle : Here Are the Young Men
Books Frances Hider interviews Gavin Francis about his latest book in another video from our Edinburgh International Book Festival author interview series. Edinburgh GP Gavin Francis spent over a year at a remote research station to write the Scottish Book of … Gavin Francis : Adventures in Human Being
Books Bestselling author and former Children’s Laureate Michael Rosen is issuing a passionate plea to parents, families and children: to look beyond the school gates to see and learn about the world afresh. From understanding politics and religion to enjoying poetry … Michael Rosen : Every Day is a School Day
Books Ricky Brown talks to Caroline Criado-Perez at the Edinburgh Book Festival about her book ‘Do it Like a Woman: … And Change the World’. Winner of the Liberty Human Rights Campaigner of the Year award, Caroline Criado-Perez is well known … Caroline Criado-Perez : Do it Like a Woman
Books We interviewed Marc Lambert the CEO of Scottish Book Trust and author Anne Donovan about the exciting events at this years Book Week Scotland. Book Week Scotland is a week-long celebration of books and reading that takes place every November. … Book Week Scotland, 23 – 29 November 2015
Books Olivia Vitazkova interviews A D Miller the author of Snowdrop on the moral undertow of his new novel The Faithful Couple. Two young British men on the cusp of adulthood, meet at a hostel in San Diego. They strike up … A D Miller : The Faithful Couple
Books Bridgett Richards talks with Patrick Gale about his new novel A Place Called Winter which moves far from his customary Cornwall location. The novel evokes the harsh landscapes of the Canadian prairie for those who emigrated from Britain to make … Patrick Gale : A Place Called Winter
Books Ali Millar interviews Sean Michaels on his debut novel, Us Conductors. The novel concerns the creator of one of the world’s strangest instruments. Locked in a cabin aboard a ship bearing him back to Russia and away from the love … Sean Michaels : Us Conductors
Books Louise Welsh recently published Death is a Welcome Guest, the second part in her Plague Times trilogy following last year’s A Lovely Way to Burn. Welsh believes good thrillers are a reflection of the times they are written in. ‘The … Louise Welsh : Death is a Welcome Guest
Books In conversation with Ali Millar at the 2015 Edinburgh International Book Festival, Rachel Cusk introduces her new novel Outline, a novel the New York Times has described as ‘lethally intelligent’ and ‘a heartbreaking portrait of poise, sympathy and regret’. Rachel Cusk : Outline
Books “How the silver darlings shaped human Taste” An interview at the Shetland Library, with Donald S. Murray, author, poet and educator. Murray is a Hebridean by birth now resident in the Shetland Isles where he works and writes in collaboration … Herring Tales : Donald S. Murray
Books As the methods of warfare get more brutal, subtlety and secrecy become valid tools in overpowering enemy forces. For his book Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins, Andrew Cockburn, the Washington editor of Harper’s, has been quietly researching … Andrew Cockburn : Kill Chain
The work and life of Martha Gellhorn, the great war correspondent who covered practically every trouble-spot on earth for six decades, including the Spanish Civil War, D-Day, Dachau, Viet Nam, Greenham Common, El Salvador and Mandela’s inauguration. Gellhorn’s main message … Jack Klaff : Martha Gellhorn
