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It comes as more than 50 writers have raised concerns about the festival’s main sponsor, investment management firm Baillie Gifford.

Activist Mikaela Loach staged protest over investment firm’s ‘bankrolling’ of the climate crisis

More than 50 authors in search of a climate cause are threatening to boycott next year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival because they disapprove of its ma

Authors have staged a walkout from the Edinburgh International Book Festival in protest at its links to “fossil fuel companies”. Mikaela Loach, an author and cl

Author Mikaela Loach was one of several writers who left their panels at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on Saturday in a stand against the festivals main sponsor Baillie Gifford

More than 50 authors, including Ali Smith and Zadie Smith, have called on the organisers of the Edinburgh International Book Festival to cut ties with a spo

Some of the writers appearing at this years Edinburgh Book Festival have signed a letter demanding the firm backing the event, Baillie Gifford, divest from fossil fuel corporations

Organisers of the Edinburgh International Book Festival agree to discuss its deal with the investment firm Baillie Gifford amid accusations of “greenwashing”

A few days ago climate activist Greta Thunberg pulled out from participating in the Edinburgh book festival at the last minute. The reason: the main s

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