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Actor and playwright Paul Brightwell introduces MERZSPIEL ahead of his performance opening the MERZ exhibition ‘Kurt Schwitters has entered the room’. The performance was filmed and will be shown throughout the exhibition which remains open by arrangement, merzgallery@icloud.com. Paul is …

Lily Freeman interviews childrens’ author Vivian French at the Boswell Book Festival in May 2018.

Ali Millar speaks to Justin Cartwright about his new book Up Against the Night, at this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival. Frank McAllister is a man who appears to have it all: wealth, happiness and a comfortable London life. The …

Ali Millar in conversation with Etgar Keret an internationally acclaimed novelist who now turned his hand on memoir, at this year’s Edinburgh Book Festival. Etgar Keret was declared ‘a genius’ by the New Yorker: The Seven Good Years, translated into English by …

Colin MacIntyre may be more familiar to some as the man behind Mull Historical Society. Under this pseudonym he has become one of the UK’s most respected songwriters and performers, releasing four albums to critical and chart success. Now Colin …

Matt Haig spoke in front of a packed Book Festival audience about the importance of reading and writing in maintaining mental health and its role in helping him conquer depression, as part of the Festival’s Staying Well strand. Matt said …

Lesley McDowell talks about her book Unfashioned Creatures, which centres around the life of Isabella Baxter Booth, who was the real-life childhood friend of Mary Shelley. Booth was said to be ‘disturbed in her reason’, and it’s this idea, and …

As part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Edinburgh City of Literature run a programme called Story Shop, which offers 17 up-and-coming authors the chance to do a 10 minute reading of their work. Marjorie Gill will be reading four …

Writer Victoria Hendry introduces her debut novel, A Capital Union, which taps into the independence debate as newly-wed Agnes becomes embroiled in Scottish nationalist politics of 1942. Victoria Hendry has worked in the London Museum of Jewish Life and Kirkcaldy …