Edinburgh International Book Festival

Dates for next festival: Sat 14 - Mon 30 August 2010

Programme announced in June

An inspiring literary festival, the world's largest public celebration of the written word, right in the heart of Edinburgh: hundreds of author events, debates and workshops packed into 17 extraordinary days each August.

Missed an event at the Book Festival?

You needn't miss out as you can now download the audio to some of 2009's most popular events from our media archive. If you don't have time to listen to a whole event why not catch the flavour of the festival with our short podcast interviews or read about memorable moments recorded in our blog. And if you want to see what went on this year with your own eyes, visit our image gallery or Flickr page.

Book Festival highlights on other websites

Nourishing Book Festival nuggets seem to spread far and wide on the web. We'd like to share some of the best with you.

Video: The Sunday Times' brilliant podcasts include author interviews and readings from our events, while Edinburgh Festivals TV features quick chats with a wide range of Book Festival speakers; Mark Millar, Vince Cable, Julia Donaldson, Richard Eyre, Simon King.

Photos: A man with a true eye for portraiture, Murdo MacLeod's author photos are always impressive. Experience the festival through a montage of some of his favourite pics set to a soundtrack of event excerpts. Great fun. Also, see how much Kate Silverton enjoyed meeting The Gruffalo during Radio Five Live's broadcast from Charlotte Square Gardens.

Articles: Read what other people thought of our events in some excellent reviews and feature articles in Edinburgh Festivals magazine, Fest magazine and The Times (scroll half way down the page to see the Times articles).

Radio: Listen to the RNIB's Insight Radio (scroll down to third section of page) for a Talking Books special recorded at the Book Festival. Includes author interviews, a chat with audio book narrators and a blind man discusses how he navigates the Book Festival site.