There are events for just about every age and interest at the Book Festival, bringing readers and writers together for inspiration, entertainment and discussion. Over 900 authors appear in around 800 events, including novelists, poets, scientists, sportsmen, illustrators, comics creators, historians, musicians, biographers, Nobel and Booker prize-winners and many more besides.
Yuval Zommer introduces the latest in his immensely popular Big Book series and this time it’s all about birds. Packed with illustrations and flighty facts about our feathered friends, from peacocks to pigeons and flamingos to fairy wrens, a whole...
Following his debut success, Gaspard the Fox is back with his friends Peter and Finty. When they stumble across a summer fête, suddenly Gaspard finds himself competing in the dog show. Based on the humorous escapades of a real north London fox, see the...
Drop in and join students from the Edinburgh College of Art to create a very special 'explosion' book that can be turned into your passport to anywhere in the universe. Then make your own rocket so that you can boldly go where no human has gone before.
Following the success of last year’s improvised event, favourite Festival storyteller Vivian French returns with illustrator Petr Horáček to craft a new story based on your ideas. Suggest exciting plot points to Vivian and guide Petr’s drawing...
Three authors for young adults come together for a lively conversation about verse novels, their growing popularity and how to tell diverse, dynamic stories. Kwame Alexander and Jason Reynolds are CILIP Carnegie Medal-shortlisted authors and Sarah...
She Wolf is a startlingly original tale centering on an epic action heroine. Determined to avenge her mother’s death, young Viking girl Ylva tracks her killer north across the hinterland. But has she become too hardened by cruel fate to recognise...
Nik and Norva have the whole summer holiday ahead of them with nothing to do. So when there’s a murder in their London high-rise, who better to solve the case? High-Rise Mystery's debut author Sharna Jackson and editor Robin Stevens, herself a...
New events for 2019 announced 
