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    Kit de Waal: Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood

    Monday 29 August 14:30 - 15:30

    Kit de Waal: Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood Book
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    Kit de Waal’s influence across contemporary British literature is so broad as to be almost immeasurable. So how is it that one of our titans of the written word grew up with only the Bible to read? De Waal comes to this year’s Festival to chat about...
     

    Maggie O'Farrell: Renaissance Woman

    Monday 29 August 17:30 - 18:30

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    Hamnet was a runaway bestseller before winning the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2020. Unsurprisingly, Maggie O’Farrell’s latest novel is one of the most hotly-anticipated of 2022. Today, in conversation with Damian Barr, the Edinburgh-based writer...