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 1000 events, including novelists, poets, scientists, sportsmen, illustrators, comics creators, historians, musicians, biographers, Nobel and Booker prize-winners and many more besides.
Kit de Waal became a powerful advocate for people from disadvantaged backgrounds following the success of her debut novel My Name is Leon and she follows it with The Trick to Time, a tender story of an Irish couple in 1970s Birmingham. Joanna Nadin was...
The Edinburgh International Book Festival Launches Citizen 
