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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.
Verónica Baruq returns from a life abroad to the Caribbean island of San Andrés and discovers that she doesn’t truly know who she is or where she’s from. Cristina Bendek’s Salt Crystals, which won the Colombian Elisa Mújica National Novel...
Inspired by a personal quest to learn more about Britain’s role in the slave trade, Thomas Harding tells the story of the Demerara Uprising, a key trigger in the abolition of slavery, in White Debt. In Uncommon Wealth, Kojo Koram traces the group of...
Join Alex Wheatle, author of Cane Warriors and Kemosha of the Caribbean along with Lisa Williams from the Edinburgh Caribbean Association, on a special historical walking tour. Tour sites around Edinburgh with centuries of the city’s Black presence,...
The line-up for the 2022 Book Festival is revealed 
