Reading

Childhood

Writing Books for her Daughter

Scarlet Umbrella

The Characters

Playing Instruments

Q&A

Cariad Lloyd's Fringe picks

Edinburgh Nights: Richard Wilson and Angus Deayton

Alexei Sayle on life and 'inventing' British comedy

Pushing onto trains

Erica Jong on sex and ageing

Jackie Kay on tracing her birth parents

Irvine Welsh on the contrast between Scotland and America

A disastrous opening night

'Do you believe in fairies?'

"A triumph and a reason to carry on"