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Dylan Jones, Miranda Sawyer & Arusa Qureshi: Music Across the Decades

Should Rivers Be Afforded Personhood?

Ash Sarkar: Immigrants Aren’t Eating Your Pets

Steve Crawshaw & Philippe Sands: Prosecuting the Powerful

Peter Mackay: Meeting One’s Makar

Jenny Lau, Chitra Ramaswamy & Sami Tamimi: Food and Home

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We are Edinburgh International Book Festival: the world-leading festival of words, literature, and ideas.

Every August we celebrate the written word, bringing together over 600 events with the most exciting writers and thinkers on the planet to ignite imaginations, foster human connection, and challenge the status quo.

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Major new partnership with Celtic Connections
Friday 12 December

Two of Scotland's most dynamic festivals are joining forces to create ambitious new work at the intersection of literature and music…

Global Ink 2026: Call for Festival Directors Worldwide
Thursday 4 December

We're inviting expressions of interest from leaders of book, multi-artform, and ideas festivals across the world to take part in a global forum of collaboration and cultural exchange…

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