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.
Why do our differences drive so much violence and division in society? Writer and psychologist Charles Fernyhough believes words can engender more compassion, and in Others, an anthology of newly-commissioned writing, he aims to prove it. He’s joined...
Storytelling is a human gift that’s been handed down for thousands of years. In The Science of Storytelling Will Storr, the AIB International Award-winning journalist and popular novelist, speculates on whether humans should actually be better at this...
2019 Programme Launched: We Need New Stories 
