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Hundreds of events for adults, teenagers and children feature authors, illustrators, musicians, poets, policians, thinkers, prize-winners and rising stars every August.
Priestdaddy memoirist, poet, editor and Twitter sensation: Patricia Lockwood has assumed many mantles in her career yet is not defined by any of them. Her debut novel has achieved this same feat. No One is Talking About This is the story of a...
Detransition, Baby, Torrey Peters’s Women’s Prize-longlisted debut novel, remakes a classic comedy of manners for the 21st century. When trans woman Reese is approached by her ex-partner Ames (who has detransitioned) with a tantalising chance at...
In 2021, Torrey Peters became the first trans woman nominated for the Women’s Prize for Fiction – a milestone in the history of literature. Peters acknowledges that Detransition, Baby builds on the legacy of writers including Imogen Binnie –...
One of three major performances looking at today’s Scotland, Deep Wheel Orcadia is based on the verse novel by Harry Josephine Giles. A fusion of music, image and performance tells the story of Astrid – who, on return from art school on Mars, meets...
Send shivers up your spine with two delightfully dark novels from Ecuador and Norway. In Natalia García Freire’s This World Does Not Belong to Us, an insect-obsessed man seeking revenge on those who usurped his childhood home knows who will swarm to...
The line-up for the 2022 Book Festival is revealed 
