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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.
The hosts of brand new podcast Quines Cast bring us an evening of feminist thought, music, theatre and literature to provide retreat, renewal and solidarity for women and other marginalised genders. In a special Book Festival event, join hosts Caitlin...
Join us to welcome back two of the most gifted writers of their generation. Kathleen Jamie is the virtuosic poet and essayist named as Scotland’s fourth Makar last year. Working in English and Scots, Jamie’s work spans the personal and the natural...
Ted Hughes Award-winning poet Hollie McNish’s irreverent book, Slug, brings a focus on diverse topics including grief, the body and anti-masturbation pants. Joelle Taylor’s C+nto & Othered Poems won the 2021 T S Eliot Prize for its examination of...
Hannah Lavery has had such a seismic effect on Scotland’s literary culture that it’s hard to believe her new book, Blood Salt Spring, is her debut collection. A thrilling writer on the stage as well as on the page, her plays The Drift and Lament for...
Sabrina Mahfouz has often experienced the sly questioning underneath much of British society’s treatment of her: as someone of Middle Eastern heritage, can she be trusted? Confronting what’s at play here, These Bodies of Water takes us to the Middle...