Irvine Welsh on the contrast between Scotland and America

Reading

Childhood

Writing Books for her Daughter

Scarlet Umbrella

The Characters

Playing Instruments

Q&A

Tim Burgess on a chance meeting with Steve Martin

Watching Taken with your mum

Pushing onto trains

Rock 'n' Roll at the Edinburgh Fringe

Jackie Kay on tracing her birth parents

"Everyone has a lot of lanyards on"

Edinburgh Dazzle ship: Timelapse

Jackie Kay reads A Lang Promise

Poets: Leyla Josephine

Jonathan Safran Foer on writing his first book in ten years