Sean Michaels and Anna Smaill at Edinburgh International Book Festival

Ian Rankin: Crime writers need to cope with Police reorganisation

Alexander McCall Smith reads from The Revolving Door of Life

Kirsty Logan finds inspiration in the North East coast of Scotland

Inside the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo: Massed Pipes and Drums

Michael Frayn on the idiosyncratic reactions of theatre audiences

Liz Lochhead: Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off

Phill Jupitus, Alan Cox and Marcus Brigstocke

Ali McGregor sings Song 2

Inside the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo: A Bollywood Love Story

Jesse Jackson on America's culture of violence

Maggie O’Farrell on the books that inspired her childhood

The Magic Flute rebooted by Komische Oper Berlin, Barrie Kosky and British theatre group 1927