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    Edinburgh International Book Festival

    Festival dates:
    10-26 August 2019
     
    Programme launch:
    June 2019
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    Festival dates:
    10-26 August 2019
     
    Programme launch:
    June 2019
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    2018 Book Festival Highlights

    Friends relaxing in the Book Festival village

    Friends relaxing in the Book Festival village

    © Robin Mair

    • Zindzi Mandela | © Suzanne Heffron
    • Year of Young People young programmers introducing one of their 'Codename F' events | © Robin Mair
    • Yanis Varoufakis with Shami Chakrabarti | © Suzanne Heffron
    • Writing Biography - Creative Writing Workshop | © Suzanne Heffron
    • Viv Groskop | © Alan McCredie
    • Vic Galloway | © Suzanne Heffron
    • Unbound - Calypso King of the Windrush Generation | © Alan McCredie
    • Tony Adams | © Alan McCredie
    • Hugs with the Tiger Who Came To Tea | © Robin Mair
    • Life & Times of Michael K | © Robin Mair
    • Bookshop packed full of books | © Robin Mair
    • Susan Calman | © Suzanne Heffron
    • Super Power Agency Bus | © Robin Mair
    • Sue Black with Val McDermid | © Alan McCredie
    • Fun in the Baillie Gifford Story Box | © Robin Mair
    • Shahad Al-Rawi & Michael Donkor | © Robin Mair
    • Sensory Space Adventures | © Alan McCredie
    • Ruth Jones | © Alan McCredie
    • Ruby Wax | © Suzanne Heffron
    • Rose McGowan | © Robin Mair
    • Packed audience for Richard Lloyd Parry | © Robin Mair
    • Richard Dawkins | © Suzanne Heffron
    • Reinhard Kleist | © Alan McCredie
    • Reading in Charlotte Square Gardens | © Robin Mair
    • Rachel Kushner | © Alan McCredie
    • Catching a quick snap | © Robin Mair
    • Philip Pullman | © Alan McCredie
    • Book Festival gets off to a flying start! | © Robin Mair
    • Chitra Nagarajan & Olumide Popoola | © Alan McCredie
    • Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o | © Alan McCredie
    • Zindzi Mandela with her grandchildren | © Alan McCredie
    • Family reading time | © Robin Mair
    • Michael Pedersen's Oyster Party for Scott Hutchison | © Alan McCredie
    • Matt Abbott | © Suzanne Heffron
    • Martin Rowson & Mohammad Sabaaneh | © Suzanne Heffron
    • Pussy Riot's Maria Alyokhina | © Robin Mair
    • Marawa Ibrahim teaching her audience how to hula hoop | © Robin Mair
    • Mara Menzies | © Robin Mair
    • Louise Minchin | © Robin Mair
    • Linda Yueh | © Suzanne Heffron
    • Leila Aboulela reads her 'Freedom Paper' | © Suzanne Heffron
    • Kate Mosse | © Robin Mair
    • Kamal Ahmed | © Suzanne Heffron
    • Juno Dawson | © Suzanne Heffron
    • June Sarpong meets her fans | © Robin Mair
    • Julian Clary reads from 'The Bolds' | © Robin Mair
    • Jo Swinson | © Suzanne Heffron
    • Yanis Varoufakis with Jeremy Corbyn | © Alan McCredie
    • Jarvis's Big Draw | © Alan McCredie
    • Getting crafty in the Baillie Gifford Story Box | © Alan McCredie
    • James Crawford with Daniel Gray | © Alan McCredie
    • Jackie Kay & Kamila Shamsie | © Suzanne Heffron
    • Inua Ellams | © Alan McCredie
    • Ian Rankin | © Suzanne Heffron
    • Meeting Hugless Douglas | © Suzanne Heffron
    • Horrible Histories with Terry Deary | © Alan McCredie
    • Harry Hill | © Robin Mair
    • Guy Bass | © Robin Mair
    • Gregory Kenicer | © Suzanne Heffron
    • Greg Wise reads from his book | © Suzanne Heffron
    • Graeme Obree | © Robin Mair
    • Gordon Brown | © Alan McCredie
    • Frank Gardner | © Alan McCredie
    • Arriving at the Book Festival | © Suzanne Heffron
    • Elvis McGonagall | © Alan McCredie
    • Eley Williams | © Alan McCredie
    • Ed Husain | © Suzanne Heffron
    • Enjoying an ice cream in the Gardens | © Robin Mair
    • Doctors of Philosophy by Muriel Spark | © Suzanne Heffron
    • DJ Target | © Suzanne Heffron
    • David Walliams | © Alan McCredie
    • David Cannadine book signing - RM | © Robin Mair
    • Create Your Own Comics workshop | © Robin Mair
    • Edinburgh Comic Art Fair | © Robin Mair
    • Chris Hoy | © Alan McCredie
    • Chelsea Clinton | © Alan McCredie
    • Charlotte Square Gardens | © Robin Mair
    • Bruce Dickinson | © Robin Mair
    • Audience enjoying 3D event with Brian May | © Alan McCredie
    • Brian May | © Alan McCredie
    • Friends chatting over a book in the Book Festival | © Robin Mair
    • Hardworking Booksales staff | © Robin Mair
    • Book Festival Entrance Tent | © Robin Mair
    • Arriving at the Book Festival | © Robin Mair
    • Introduction to Book Conservation | © Robin Mair
    • Andy Stanton | © Robin Mair
    • Ali Smith with Nicola Sturgeon | © Suzanne Heffron
    • Ali Smith delivers her Muriel Spark lecture | © Suzanne Heffron
    • Alexander McCall Smith | © Robin Mair
    • Alan Johnson | © Suzanne Heffron
    • Afua Hirsch | © Robin Mair
    • Unbound - Africa Unbound | © Robin Mair
    • One Hundred Nights of Hero by Isobel Greenberg | © Robin Mair
    • A sunny day in the Book Festival village | © Robin Mair
    • The Last Poets | © Robin Mair
    • The Gruffalo meets young fans | © Robin Mair
    • The Freedom Finale | © Suzanne Heffron
    • Charlotte Square Gardens in the sun | © Robin Mair
    • School group in the Gardens | © Suzanne Heffron
    • Robert Peston | © Robin Mair
    • Friends relaxing in the Book Festival village | © Robin Mair
    • Our new look Spiegeltent! | © Robin Mair
    • Barroux & Michael Morpurgo | © Robin Mair
    • Mark Beaumont addresses his audience | © Robin Mair
    • Lorna Goodison | © Robin Mair
    • Karl Ove Knausgaard | © Robin Mair
    • Jo Nesbo speaks to chair Lee Randall | © Alan McCredie
    • Jenni Murray | © Suzanne Heffron
    • Helen Pankhurst & Fern Riddell with Guest Selector Adele Patrick | © Alan McCredie
    • Gina Miller | © Alan McCredie
    • Unbound - Fun Lovin' Crime Writers | © Robin Mair
    • Winners of the Euan's Guide Accessible Festival Award for Best Pop-up Venue | © Frances Sutton
    • A young reader gets a reading prescription from Doctor Book | © Suzanne Heffron
    • David France delivers the Baillie Gifford Prize lecture | © Robin Mair
    • David Almond & Michael Morpurgo | © Alan McCredie
    • Brett Anderson | © Suzanne Heffron
    • Book Festival village on George Street | © Robin Mair
    • Baillie Gifford Schools Gala Day | © Robin Mair
    • Ann Cleeves & Douglas Henshall | © Suzanne Heffron
    • Akala | © Alan McCredie
    • Enjoying an Afternoon Tea with Ozlem Warren | © Robin Mair
    • Ade Adepitan | © Suzanne Heffron
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