Reading

Childhood

Writing Books for her Daughter

Scarlet Umbrella

The Characters

Playing Instruments

Q&A

"I nearly feigned a heart attack"

Jackie Kay on tracing her birth parents

How it feels to get flyered for your own show

Simple Minds, tower blocks, chainsaws and Faust

Political poetry and the rise of xenophobia

Lazy Susan give us some Fringe heart breakers

"Socks that agreed with him"

Ben Norris: Barafundle bundle

Alan Cumming on flying to America - for the first time - with Ruby Wax

Jonathan Safran Foer on writing his first book in ten years