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.
Free your mind with a book beautifully illustrated by Syrian-born Gulnar Hajo. Nour’s Escape follows a little girl with no family, no home and seemingly no escape. But as the story criss-crosses fantasy and reality, you’ll discover how freeing a...
ROARRRR! Drop in and join Big Cat author Emma Lazell to help her create a very big Big Cat. Make sure you place him in his natural surroundings with lots of green and leafy collaging – and be sure to remember to give him his stripes.
What is the process of turning an idea into a book? How can the same idea appear as very different stories? Meet two Edinburgh authors, each putting their spin on the legend of the Loch Ness Monster. Lari Don’s The Treasure of the Loch Ness Monster...
Discover your inner artist with Fifi Kuo, Macmillan Prize for Illustration winner and author of Everyone Can Draw. Using giant rolls of paper, create a story with Fifi and celebrate your unique drawing style. Then, taking inspiration from her new book...
Think you know all there is to know about mermaids and witches? Wait until you meet bestselling World Book Day 2019 author Sibéal Pounder, creator of the Witch Wars and Bad Mermaids series. Find out the truth about your favourite fairy tales, and learn...
Discover your inner artist with Fifi Kuo, Macmillan Prize for Illustration winner and author of Everyone Can Draw. Using giant rolls of paper, create a story with Fifi and celebrate your unique drawing style. Then, taking inspiration from her new book...
Hop aboard the Super Power Agency Bus and become a literacy superhero! Special agents show you how to take a book out of your head and onto the page, where it can change the world, with fun bookmaking and storytelling activities.
New events for 2019 announced 
