8 h. ago Outlander's Sam Heughan to host cocktail class at Edinburgh's International Book Festival

Outlander star Sam Heughan is set to host a cocktail masterclass in the capital this August to promote his new cocktail recipe book and fans will be able to snatch up tickets for the event very soon.

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16 h. ago Edinburgh International Book Festival 2025: How to buy tickets

The Edinburgh International Book Festival is returning to the Scottish capital this August - and will run across a fortnight of events, including appearances from Nicola Sturgeon and Alice Oseman.

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20 h. ago Outlander star Sam Heughan to give cocktail masterclass at Edinburgh International Book Festival

Sam Heughan - the star of Outlander - is among celebrities from the world of film and TV who will feature at this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival.

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21 h. ago Nicola Sturgeon and Irvine Welsh join Edinburgh Book Festival line

The former first minister is preparing to launch a mammoth promotional tour ahead of the publication of her long-awaited political memoir.

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21 h. ago Actor Sam Heughan to give cocktail masterclass at Edinburgh International Book Festival

Sam Heughan - the star of Outlander - is among celebrities from the world of film and TV who will feature at this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival.

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21 h. ago 10 highlights from 2025 Edinburgh International Book Festival

The Edinburgh International Book Festival has launched its programme today

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21 h. ago Nicola Sturgeon and Irvine Welsh feature in Edinburgh book festival line

Maggie O’Farrell, Alexander McCall Smith, Julian Clary, Viggo Mortensen, Sam Heughan and Dame Vanessa Redgrave are also included.

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21 h. ago Edinburgh book festival to make case for hope with Hanif Kureishi and Palestinian poet

Brazilian tribal leader among other guests at event with theme of repair, along with Ruth Jones and Nicola SturgeonThe Edinburgh book festival is to champion the positive power of hope later this summer with events involving Hanif Kureishi, the Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish and an exiled Brazilian tribal leader.The core theme for this year’s festival will be the “expansive” concept of repair, and offering solutions and optimism at a time of crisis and conflict, said Jenny Niven, the event’s director.The Edinburgh international book festival runs from 9 to 24 August. Tickets go on sale on 21 June. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Scotland's top 10 unique summer 2025 events including music and food festivals

From the Borders Book Festival to Kelburn Garden Party, there's plenty to keep Scots busy in summer

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5 d. ago BBC Radio 2 In The Park 2025 ticket prices and how to book for huge music festival

The festival will be held in Chelmsford's Hylands Park this September

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5 d. ago Wigtown Book Festival encouraging more volunteers to get involved

More than 100 people – some from as far away as America – get involved in ensuring the smooth running of the festival and other events every year.

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9 d. ago Salman Rushdie says AI won’t threaten authors until it can make people laugh

Author tells Hay festival AI has no sense of humour but when it writes a funny book ‘we’re screwed’Salman Rushdie has said that authors are safe from the threat of AI – until the moment it can create a book that makes people laugh.Speaking at the Hay festival in Hay-on-Wye, Wales, Rushdie said he had “never tried AI” and liked to pretend it didn’t exist. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Why Jeremy Vine adores Appledore: a guide to the perfect staycation in North Devon

From ice cream by the water to a book festival and a row-boat tug of war, the presenter and author loves every inch of this adorable seaside town

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1 week ago Irvine Welsh: Revealing documentary about Trainspotting author to close Edinburgh International Film Festival

A documentary featuring Irvine Welsh will close the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

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2 w. ago ‘It led me to some risky places’: The book that made me who I am today, by Tessa Hadley, Kate Mosse and more

Eight enigmatic authors speak to Annabel Nugent about the singular book to define them as writers and people

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2 w. ago Trump has ‘never evolved, which is dangerous’, his niece Mary Trump says

Mary Trump tells Hay-on-Wye book festival in Wales that her uncle, the US president, ‘isn’t close with anybody’Donald Trump has “never evolved” and “isn’t close with anybody”, according to Mary Trump, the US president’s niece and a vocal critic of his business and political career.The daughter of Donald’s older brother, Fred Trump Jr (nicknamed Freddie), Mary Trump told the Hay festival in Wales – where she was discussing her latest book about the Trump family, Who Could Ever Love You – that she no longer has relationships with anyone in her family apart from her daughter. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago International Booker Prize: The winner that will be showcased at 2025 Edinburgh International Book Festival

The author and translator of the winning book will appear at the Edinburgh International Book Festival

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3 w. ago ‘They erupt from the moor like castles, monsters and giants’: exploring Dartmoor’s tors

These ancient rocks have inspired myth and mysticism for millennia, and a new book and festival celebrate their enduring powerThe first bluebells are out along the Dart gorge, creating a faint purple haze under the twisted oak trees. I’m on my way to Luckey Tor, one of Dartmoor’s most hidden rock stacks, which sits by the river, shrouded in vegetation like Sleeping Beauty’s castle. It’s not the easiest of walks. The path peters out as I get deeper into the gorge, and the final approach to the tor involves clambering and hopping over large mossy boulders and navigating huge shelves of rock that border the river.The first sight of it is unforgettable. A small stream, the Row Brook, runs in front of it, like a moat. The tor looms up squarely from the valley floor, dwarfing everything around, framed in a grassy clearing that is a popular place to bivouac. Its position is unusual. Most tors are at the summit of a hill, dominating the views for miles around, standing grandly in the landsc...

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4 w. ago Boswell Book Festival draws in the crowds with another successful year

Dumfries House hosted the Boswell Book Festival, the world's only festival dedicated to biography and memoir, at the weekend.

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