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2025 Festival:
9-24 August
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2025 Festival:
9-24 August
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2011 Book Festival Highlights - Week One

Sarah Brown book signing

Sarah Brown book signing

Sarah Brown signing her book Behind the Black Door

T C Boyle on stage
Alexander McCall Smith book signing
Sarah Brown book signing
reading in the sunshine
Pamela Stephenson Connolly
Sarah Brown book signing: Sarah Brown signing her book Behind the Black Door
  • Maggie O'Farrell at lectern |
  • Signing queue for Neil Gaiman |
  • Maggie O'Farrell and Jenny Brown |
  • Neil Gaiman |
  • Tim Harford and Ruth Wishart |
  • Voting Box Newton First Book Award |
  • Tobias Wolff |
  • Simon Sebag Montefiore |
  • Zoe Strachan |
  • Well read generations |
  • Pamela Stephenson-Connolly |
  • Unbound in the Spiegeltent |
  • The Gruffalo |
  • Reading with rucksack |
  • Reading the Guardian |
  • Reading technology |
  • Edwin Morgan Poetry Competition winner |
  • Dragons and Fairies with Julia Donaldson |
  • Kristin Hersh |
  • Children's Bookshop Browsing |
  • Jennifer Egan and Karen Russell Signing |
  • Derek Landy talking to a fan |
  • Guardian interaction |
  • Julia Donaldson and The Gruffalo |
  • Entrance to Book Festival |
  • Alexei Sayle on stage |
  • Alexei Sayle and Lee Randall |
  • Bookshop browsing |
  • Arlene Phillips |
  • Ali Smith |
  • Children joining in |
  • Audrey Niffenegger and Stuart Kelly |
  • Bettany Hughes |
  • Book Festival audience |
  • Alasdair Gray signing books |
  • Charlotte Square Gardens |
  • Unbound Audience Participation | Richard Wiseman gets the audience to join in during his late night Unbound session
  • Unbound with Richard Wiseman | Unbound with Richard Wiseman
  • T C Boyle on stage | T C Boyle on stage
  • Alexander McCall Smith book signing | Alexander McCall Smith book signing
  • Sarah Brown book signing | Sarah Brown signing her book Behind the Black Door
  • reading in the sunshine | reading in the sunshine
  • Pamela Stephenson Connolly | Pamela Stephenson Connolly
  • Julia Donaldson signing | Julia Donaldson signing her book
  • Gruffalo | The Gruffalo mingles with the crowds
  • Edinburgh Samba School | Edinburgh Samba School were on hand with rousing drums to welcome everyone on opening day
  • Ed Vere signing | Ed Vere signing his book Bedtime for Monsters
  • Cory Doctorow on stage | Cory Doctorow on stage
  • Bettany Hughes on stage | Bettany Hughes on stage
  • Alexei Sayle photoshoot | Alexei Sayle photoshoot
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