How to book

Booking tickets online

You can have confidence that the Book Festival online ticket-buying system is fully secure. All credit card transactions processed from this site are encrypted to create a secure and convenient service. Tickets will be posted to you unless you are booking less than 7 days before the event. If this is the case you will be advised to collect your tickets from the Entrance Tent in Charlotte Square Gardens on the booking confirmation email which will be sent to you automatically once you have submitted your payment details.

Booking tickets by phone

Tickets can be booked by calling: 0845 373 5888.

Details about opening times for telephone booking will be available here when the programme is launched in June.

Calls from BT landlines are charged at the local rate and there is a connection charge for each call. Charges will vary from other phone networks - please check with your phone provider.

Booking tickets in person

Information about how to book tickets in person for the 2012 Festival will be available here in June.

Ticket prices

Adult events range from £7.00 - £15.00 (£5.00 - £12.00 concessions)
Some adult events are free
Children's events are £4.50
Some children's events are free

Concession prices are available to:

Over 60s
Students
Disabled people (carer goes free - see details below)
Young Scot cardholders
Registered unemployed
Under 16s

Proof of entitlement will be required.

Payment: we accept Visa / Delta / Maestro / Mastercard. Cheques should be made payable to Edinburgh International Book Festival. Bookings are subject to a £1 booking fee unless tickets are purchased in person (this is applied to each transaction, not each ticket booked). Tickets cannot be exchanged nor money refunded unless an event is cancelled or substantially changed. Where ticket demand is high for sold out events, we may offer a refund. Tickets must be returned to the Box Office before a refund can be given and refunds will only be made to the original payment method.

Visitors with disabilities: Please ask our Box Office staff for information or advice for your particular needs when booking. If your disability requires that you need a carer in order to attend our events the carer is entitled to a free ticket, which should be booked at the same time as your own. Free tickets for carers are not available to buy online.

New – BSL Interpretation by request: We are delighted to be piloting a system for customers to request British Sign Language interpretation of any event in the programme. Find out more about how it works.

Events and seating: Events are 1 hour long unless otherwise specified in the event listing. All our seating is unreserved (seats don't have numbers) and therefore you can sit anywhere in the auditorium you wish.

Latecomers: Please be considerate and arrive in good time for your event. Latecomers are hugely disruptive and will not be admitted after the beginning of events. Please allow enough time to pick up tickets (if applicable) and get to the relevant venue. Refunds will not be given to latecomers.

Back to back events: Please do not book events back-to-back (where one event finishes at the same time the other starts). You will not get to the second event in time for the start, and we do not admit latecomers (see above).

Contact details

Email: boxoffice@edbookfest.co.uk
Telephone: 0845 373 5888

Edinburgh International Book Festival Box Office
PO BOX 23835
Edinburgh
EH2 4WS