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2025 Festival:
9-24 August
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2025 Festival:
9-24 August
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2003 Book Festival Highlights

Alain de Botton photoshoot

Alain de Botton photoshoot

Stretching for a book in the Children's Bookshop
Alexander McCall Smith photoshoot
Alain de Botton photoshoot
Robert Winston book signing
Kate Adie in conversation with Ruth Wishart
Alain de Botton photoshoot
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  • Stretching for a book in the Children's Bookshop |
  • Alexander McCall Smith photoshoot |
  • Alain de Botton photoshoot |
  • Robert Winston book signing |
  • Kate Adie in conversation with Ruth Wishart |
  • Jacqueline Wilson signing books for young readers in the sun |
  • Irvine Welsh on the Festival site |
  • Iain Banks |
  • Doris Lessing relaxing on the Book Festival site |
  • David Bellamy photoshoot |
  • Ben Okri book signing |
  • Dusk in the Gardens |
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