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

Jesse Jackson: 'Can you imagine a state in Germany having the right to fly a Nazi flag?'

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

Fred MacAulay's five festival picks

Jazz Line-Up: The Darius Brubeck Quartet perform Take Five

Richard Coles: 'It was our ambition to bring down Margaret Thatcher with pop music'

Foil, Arms and Hog

Cabaret Acrobat, Danik Abishev

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

Darren Walsh at BBC at the Edinburgh Festivals

Funmbi Omotayo, BBC Presents the Next Big Thing