Sturgeon is continuing the book festival tradition of first ministers interviewing authors.

Val McDermid is at the Edinburgh international book festival on Thursday 18 August.

Programming a book festival is, in a lot of ways, a dream job.

We met at a book festival, probably one of the first I ever attended.

The relentless revolving door of writers that is the Edinburgh international book festival continues today.

Perhaps Bercow is one of the few active politicians who could enthuse a book festival.

Just when I'm off at a book festival or reading something interesting,' I told him.

You can also see Murdo Macleod's pictures from the book festival in a gallery here.

It would't be a book festival without some poetry.

I spent election day in Ullapool in the far north-west of Scotland for the book festival.

Edinburgh's international book festival is getting Stripped and ready with a strand devoted to comic books.

I thought about temporal things as I took the four-and-a-half-hour train to the Edinburgh international book festival.

The couple lived in the United States and were visiting Dhaka only to attend the book festival.

The Guardian'sSeverin Carrell reports on a new partnership between the Edinburgh book festival and the Edinburgh film festival.

We've been asking the crowds at the Edinburgh book festival to contribute to TLS in their own way.

Wigtown is known as Scotland's Book Town and holds an annual book festival - which features The Bookshop Band.