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Sara Pascoe brings her new show, Success Story, to Scotland. Pic: Rachel Sherlock

Theatre and Stage Sara Pascoe on her new show, Success Story and the mother of all tours

The courtyard at Edinburgh College of Art was used for events at this year's Edinburgh International Book Festival. Picture: Simone Padovani

What's On Book festival to cut jobs, scale back programme and drop streaming

What's On Push The Boat Out: Line-up for Edinburgh's poetry festival revealed

Columnists Legal threats are no way to treat Scotland's Queen of Crime – Martyn McLaughlin

What's On Book festival reports 100,000 ticket sales from scaled-down event

Books Edinburgh International Book Festival reviews: Douglas Stuart | Kit de Waal | Ph...

What's On Irvine Welsh: Trainspotting musical is 'darker' than book, film and stage show

What's On Brian Cox: Scots lack the confidence to vote for independence

What's On Val McDermid reveals ‘Queen of Crime’ legal threat from Agatha Christie estate

Edinburgh Festivals Edinburgh International Book Festival: Noam Chomsky | Jonathan Franzen + more

World Ukrainian club considers complaints over ‘pro-Russian’ comments at book festival

What's On 44 Scotland Street: Alexander McCall Smith's serial novel returns

Edinburgh Festivals EIBF round-up: Maddie Mortimer, Catherine Simpson, Tanya Shadrick + more

What's On Festival Diary: The moment that left Val McDermid speechless as a journalist

Edinburgh Festivals Book Festival round-up: Liz Lochhead | Michael Pedersen | Colm Toibin

Edinburgh Festivals Winners of UK’s oldest literary prize revealed at Edinburgh Book Festival

Edinburgh Festivals Edinburgh International Book Festival interview: Hamnet author Maggie O'Farrell

What's On Festival Diary: From Scrooge McDuck to Outlander via a snub for Superman

What's On Festival Diary: New horizons beckon for Sir Ian Rankin

Books Book Festival round-up: Katherine Rundell | Amy Liptrot | Ian Rankin

What's On Rankin reveals he will be putting Rebus behind bars in his next novel

Edinburgh Festivals Book Festival round-up: Alan Cumming | Alistair Moffat | Joanne Harris

Edinburgh Festivals Edinburgh International Book Festival reviews: Alison Watt and Richard Holloway ...

Edinburgh Festivals Edinburgh International Book Festival round-up: Jarvis Cocker | Ricky Ross | Gra...

What's On Jarvis Cocker reveals he will play a cowboy in Wes Anderson's next movie

What's On Award-winning writer Darren McGarvey credits JK Rowling for kickstarting career

What's On Festival Diary: Kevin Bridges suggests Lewis Capaldi try his hand at acting

Edinburgh Festivals Book Festival round-up: Monica Ali | Kevin Bridges | Patrick Gale

What's On Frankie Boyle reveals he may give up live comedy for writing novels

Edinburgh Festivals Book Festival interview: Jonathan Franzen on tackling a trilogy

What's On Kevin Bridges thanks Irvine Welsh for firing his interest in reading

Edinburgh Festivals Book Festival round-up: Serhii Plokhy with Alan Little + more

What's On Alexander McCall Smith reveals the return of 44 Scotland Street to The Scotsman

Edinburgh Festivals Book Festival roundup: Alexander McCall Smith | Louise Welsh | William Dalrymple

What's On Festival Diary: The question that flummoxed the First Minister

What's On Janey Godley to return to live comedy following cancer treatment

Edinburgh Festivals Book Festival roundup: Janey Godley | Howard Jacobson | Rupert Thomson

What's On Festival Diary: Janey Godley is big box office at the book festival

Edinburgh Festivals Book Festival interview: Armando Iannucci on his epic pandemic poem

Edinburgh Festivals Edinburgh International Book Festival reviews: Henry Marsh | Jonathan Freedland...

What's On Scots tourism expert wants campaign to attract more refugees and migrants

Edinburgh Festivals Book Festival interview: author Daniel Hahn on the art of translation

What's On Book festival reveals tickets still available for big-name authors

Books Book review: The Arctic, by Don Paterson

Books Book review: Walking Back Home, by Ricky Ross

Edinburgh Festivals Edinburgh International Book Festival author Louise Welsh: ‘It was fun to write ...

Books Book review: Meantime, by Frankie Boyle

Books Book review: Another Way to Split Water, by Alycia Pirmohamed

Books Book review: The Exquisite Art of Getting Even, by Alexander McCall Smith

Books Book review: Thunderstone, by Nancy Campbell

Edinburgh Festivals Edinburgh International Festival's first ever blockbuster show revisited

Books Book review: Belonging, by Amanda Thomson

Books Book review: Boy Friends, by Michael Pedersen

Opinion Jarvis Cocker: his new book made me think about my cellar - Gaby Soutar

Columnists JK Rowling’s perseverance on Harry Potter still inspires 25 years on

Edinburgh Festivals How to get tickets for the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2022

Edinburgh Festivals 14 famous faces appearing at the Edinburgh International Book Festival this year

What's On Edinburgh International Book Festival reveals star-studded line-up for comeback

What's On Edinburgh book festival chief urges city to reclaim global culture crown

What's On Edinburgh International Book Festival to relocate to historic hospital building

What's On Trainspotting sequel Porno to be brought to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe stage

What's On Fly-on-the-wall documentary to follow Irvine Welsh for 18 months

What's On Scotland’s book festivals valued at more than £11.3m for the economy

What's On One of Edinburgh’s oldest buildings to host climate crisis culture project

What's On Sir Billy Connolly 's fury over ‘appalling treatment’ of Irish ancestors

What's On Rap, hip hop and rock stars to feature in new 'boundary bending' poetry festival

Books Edinburgh Book Festival review: Ian Rankin

Coronavirus Book event with Nicola Sturgeon to go ahead 'as advertised'

Books Edinburgh Book Festival reviews: Doireann Ni Ghriofa | Kei Miller | Edmund de Wa...

Books Edinburgh Book Festival review: Ali Smith

What's On Ian Rankin on getting inside William McIlvanney's head to complete final novel

Books Edinburgh Book Festival review: Bernard MacLaverty and AL Kennedy

Books Edinburgh Book Festival reviews: Alison Watt | Craig Brown | Sathnam Sanghera

Books Edinburgh Book Festival review: Alison Bechdel

Books Edinburgh Book Festival reviews: Pat Barker | Maggie O'Farrell | Marilynne Robin...

Edinburgh Festivals Edinburgh Book Festival reviews: David Grossman | David Diop | Tom Devine | Eyal...