Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert De Niro | Robert E. Lee | Robert Mugabe | Robert Redford | Robert Burns | Robert Bosch GmbH | Robert | Robert A. Heinlein | Robert Schumann | Robert Browning | Alan Moore | Robert Rauschenberg | Robert Plant | Robert Altman | Robert Mitchum | Robert Frost | Alan Lomax | Robert Southey | Robert F. Kennedy | Alan Alda | Robert Maxwell | Robert Graves | Robert E. Howard | Alan Jackson | Alan Shearer | Robert Fripp | Robert Fisk | Robert Rodriguez | Robert Motherwell |
The first festival included some well known Scottish writers, as well as up and coming authors from around the world, including Ali Smith, Ian Rankin, Douglas Dunn, A. L. Kennedy, Kapka Kassabova, Ronan Sheehan, Rajorshi Chakraborti, Dilys Rose, Dean Parkin, Robert Alan Jamieson, Owen Dudley Edwards, and many others.