EIBF Events on Saturday 25th August

• Literature and Culture - RBS Main Theatre

For the first time, Scotland and the UK's oldest and most prestigious literary awards, founded in 1919, are presented by the University of Edinburgh live in public at the Book Festival. Past winners include D H Lawrence, Graham Greene, E M Forster, Aldous Huxley and William Golding. Join James Naughtie as he announces the 2007 winners for fiction and biography.

• History - Peppers Theatre

Two superb Scottish historical novels. Donald Smith, director of the Scottish Storytelling Centre, continues our examination of the Union with a colourful look at Daniel Defoe's spying for the English government in Scotland. Multi award-winning Janet Paisley uncovers the remarkable forgotten story of 'Colonel Anne', an inspiring tale of a feisty female who rose up against her husband in the Jacobite rebellion.

• Comedy - ScottishPower Studio Theatre

One of the most extraordinarily gifted novelists of her generation, A L Kennedy has in recent years also found new success as a stand-up comic. Come and hear her inspired monologue about the many absurdities of the writing life and hold onto your seats.

• Fine Fiction - Peppers Theatre

Three of Scotland’s finest. We are delighted to launch Ron Butlin’s new collection of stories, No More Angels; comic and tragic tales of human frailty. The frailty of the flesh is exposed in Ewan Morrison’s debut novel about the world of ‘swinging’; while Dan Rhodes shows all his quirky, unpredictable wit in the delightful and moving Gold.