Authors at the Edinburgh international book festival – in pictures

Writer Caitlin Moran, who talked about her book How to Be a Woman, ''The Female Eunuch, but with knob gags''.
Video interview: Caitlin Moran Photograph: Murdo Macleod

US novelist, journalist and academic Francisco Goldman, who talked about his novel Say Her Name. Photograph: Murdo Macleod

Pamela Stephenson-Connolly, who talked about her book Sex Life. Photograph: Murdo Macleod

Historian Orlando Figes, who talked about his forthcoming study of a gulag internee's secret correspondence. Photograph: Murdo Macleod

Author and painter Alasdair Gray, who was honoured for the 30th anniversary of his landmark Scottish novel Lanark. Photograph: Murdo Macleod

Katharine Birbalsingh, whose book To Miss With Love – about life as an inner city teacher has just been published – aired some of her famously strong views on education. Photograph: Murdo Macleod

American writer Tobias Wolff, who was in Edinburgh to mark 20 years since the publication of This Boy's Life. Photograph: Murdo Macleod

Lila Azam Zanganeh, who talked about her unconventional study of Lolita's author, The Enchanter: Nabokov and Happiness. Photograph: Murdo Macleod

Hari Kunzru, in Edinburgh to talk about his new novel Gods Without Men.
Stuart Jeffries interviews Hari Kunzru Photograph: Murdo Macleod

Bettany Hughes, who talked about The Hemlock Cup, her recreation of the life and time of Socrates. Photograph: Murdo Macleod

James Attlee, who talked about Nocturne, his 'Journey in Search of Moonlight'.
John Banville reviews Nocturne by James Attlee Photograph: Murdo Macleod

Tom McCarthy, who delivered a multimedia lecture on 'how writing works', taking in Heidegger, Cocteau and Kraftwerk.
Video: Tom McCarthy in Edinburgh Photograph: Murdo Macleod

Novelist Alexei Sayle, who talked about his memoir of growing up in a communist household, Stalin Ate My Homework. Photograph: Murdo Macleod

AL Kennedy, in Edinburgh to talk about her new novel The Blue Book.
Podcast: AL Kennedy on The Blue Book Photograph: Murdo Macleod

Writer, translator and editor Alberto Manguel, who was commissioned by the festival to write a piece on the theme of 'Elsewhere'. Photograph: Murdo Macleod