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2025 Festival:
9-24 August
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2025 Festival:
9-24 August
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2017 Book Festival Highlights

Browsing the Bookshop

Browsing the Bookshop

Lars Mytting & Rachel Seiffert
Creative Writing Workshop in The Greenhouse
Browsing the Bookshop
Bookshop staff fill the shelves
Tony Ross illustrates his much-loved Little Princess character
Browsing the Bookshop
  • Tea, Cake and Colouring-in with Eilidh Muldoon |
  • Musical prodigy Min Kym |
  • Judy Murray |
  • Audiences enter the Baillie Gifford Imagination Lab |
  • New Greenhouse venue on George Street |
  • Garth Greenwell & Eimear McBride |
  • Sunny day in Charlotte Square Gardens |
  • Lots of brochures in the Book Festival Entrance Tent |
  • Book Festival Entrance Tent |
  • Chris Close author portrait exhibition in Gardens |
  • Charley Boorman (with motorbike!) |
  • Booksales team hard at work |
  • Wonderful Book Festival staff |
  • Sebastian Barry |
  • Outriders reunited! |
  • Outriders: Stef Smith & Ximena Escalante |
  • Julian Clary meets the audience |
  • Sally Magnusson presents the 2017 James Tait Black Prizegiving event |
  • Ehsan Abdollahi leads a 'Big Draw' |
  • A Stone's Throw performance by Giddy Aunt Theatre |
  • Will Self |
  • Scottish Chamber Orchestra's Instrument Armoury |
  • Charlotte Square Gardens at dusk |
  • Clare Balding |
  • Tariq Ali |
  • Limmy book signing |
  • Jess Phillips |
  • Greg James & Chris Smith book signing |
  • There's lots for young and old at the Book Festival |
  • Aravind Adiga |
  • Anthony Horowitz |
  • Reni Eddo-Lodge |
  • Nicola Sturgeon |
  • Heather McDaid & Nicola Sturgeon with Elif Shafak audience |
  • Luke Wright |
  • James Robertson reads in Ten at Ten |
  • Child enjoying a read in the Baillie Gifford Children's Bookshop |
  • Audience member gets to grill an author |
  • Richard Reed |
  • Reginald D Hunter |
  • Raja Shehadeh reads in the Amnesty International Imprisoned Writers Series |
  • David Olusoga |
  • Chris Patten |
  • Alexander McCall Smith |
  • Sabrina Mahfouz |
  • Press pack gather to snap an author |
  • Jackie Kay having a giggle |
  • Interesting conversations in the Gardens |
  • Man Booker International 2017 Winner David Grossman |
  • Making tiger masks |
  • Andy Hamilton |
  • Allan Little in his Big Interview |
  • Alan Johnson |
  • Zadie Smith |
  • Row Your Boat - Grinagog Theatre Company |
  • Roger McGough |
  • Lars Mytting & Rachel Seiffert |
  • Creative Writing Workshop in The Greenhouse |
  • Browsing the Bookshop |
  • Bookshop staff fill the shelves |
  • Tony Ross illustrates his much-loved Little Princess character |
  • Thordis Elva |
  • Margo Jefferson |
  • Front of House staff lend a hand |
  • Chris Hoy |
  • Having fun in the Book Festival village! |
  • John Gordon Sinclair |
  • A delighted police officer meets Isla Fisher at her book signing |
  • Audience Q&A |
  • Davy Zyw leads a packed Spiegeltent in a champagne tasting |
  • The Book Festival isn't just for humans... |
  • Simon Callow |
  • Paul Auster book signing |
  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie with Nicola Sturgeon |
  • Michael Rosen book signing |
  • Julia Donaldson & Friends (including The Gruffalo!) |
  • Crafts in the Story Box |
  • Pip and Posy make an appearance |
  • Jeremy Paxman |
  • Evelyn Glennie |
  • Audience Q&A |
  • Tom Kitchin |
  • Martin Bell |
  • Maggie O'Farrell |
  • Laura Albert |
  • Evan Davis book signing |
  • Reading in the Book Festival village |
  • Karl Ove Knausgaard book signing |
  • Baillie Gifford Main Theatre audience |
  • Jim Al-Khalili |
  • Expanding onto George Street this year |
  • Charlotte Square Gardens |
  • Fun Lovin' Crime Writers play Unbound |
  • The Last Poets |
  • Kristina Stephenson |
  • Standing ovation for The Last Poets |
  • Hanif Kureishi |
  • Creative Writing Workshop in The Greenhouse |
  • Cabinet Minister Fiona Hyslop and Deputy First Minister John Swinney meet The Gruffalo |
  • Richard Ford with Kirsty Wark |
  • Margaret Hodge |
  • John Simpson |
  • Dive Queer Party at Unbound |
  • Robert Webb |
  • Patrick Ness |
  • Harriet Harman |
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