Speaking at this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival, author Ian Bell discusses his book Time Out of Mind, the second part of his documentation of the life and career of Bob Dylan. While not serving as a biography as such, the book aims to present a critical analysis of Dylan’s work from the 70s onwards.

Born, raised and educated in Edinburgh, Ian Bell is a past holder of the George Orwell Prize for Political Journalism and the award-winning author of Dreams of Exile, a biography of Robert Louis Stevenson. Formerly the Scottish editor of The Observer, he is a columnist with The Herald and the Sunday Herald.