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

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

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

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

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

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...

Rock and roll plan to get writers touring Scotland

By Martin Graham LITERATURE may be the new rock and roll, but organisers are hoping that a new initiative to create a touring network for...

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