Etgar Keret and Alain Mabanckou at Edinburgh International Book Festival

Val McDermid's advice to Nicola Sturgeon and aspiring writers: 'Just do it'

Val McDermid on the Scottish referendum: 'We wanted to call our house swithering heights'

Simon McBurney on visiting the Amazon

Foil, Arms and Hog

Robert Lepage on portraying himself in 887

Stuart Evers and Dorthe Nors at Edinburgh International Book Festival

Howard Jacobson on literature and political correctness

George the Poet reads See You on the Other Side

Darren Walsh at BBC at the Edinburgh Festivals

Inside the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo: Massed Pipes and Drums

Howard Jacobson: I'd rather call myself the Jewish Jane Austen

Ian Rankin: Crime writers need to cope with Police reorganisation