Edinburgh International Book Festival
Listening to podcasts and watching videos offers readers another way to engage with the books, and authors, they love.
Here are a few audio and visual treats from previous Edinburgh Book Festivals with authors you can listen to in the Calibre collection.
Podcasts
Kathleen Jamie, Chitra Ramaswamy & Amanda Thomson: Antlers of Water (2020 Event)
In a discussion recorded live at the 2020 Book Festival and led by the BBC's Clare English, Jamie is joined by award-winning journalist Chitra Ramaswamy as well as visual artist and writer Amanda Thomson – both contributors to the anthology Antlers in Water – to discuss Scotland, landscape and the more-than-human world around us.
Listen to books by Kathleen Jamie with Calibre Audio here.
Podcast courtesy of Edinburgh International Book Festival.
Val McDermid: Portrait of a Criminal (2020 Event)
Inspired in part by the wildly popular Portrait Artist of the Year competition, the ever-inventive author teases the mysterious connection between Still Life and the Sky Arts series in a conversation with one of its widely-admired presenters, Dame Joan Bakewell, recorded live at the 2020 Book Festival.
Listen to books by Val McDermid with Calibre Audio here.
Podcast courtesy of Edinburgh International Book Festival.
Stuart MacBride at the Edinburgh International Book Festival (2019 event)
Spend an hour with master of suspense Stuart MacBride as he introduces his latest dark, thrilling novel in this event recorded live at the 2019 Edinburgh International Book Festival, in conversation with Lee Randall. With the nation at boiling point, someone’s sending messages in blood. Inspector Logan Macrae is back after a year off, but there’s no rest when a high-profile anti-Independence campaigner disappears amid growing tensions between those fighting for Scotland’s future. Can Logan survive in the cauldron of Scottish politics?
Listen to books by Stuart MacBride with Calibre Audio here.
Podcast courtesy of Edinburgh International Book Festival.
Edinburgh International Book Festival Film of the Week
Sharna Jackson & Robin Stevens: Super Sleuths
