Doing it for themselves
Sunday 18 August 17:00 - 18:00
Olja Savičević’s Singer in the Night is an insightful, sensuous and funny exploration of a woman’s recollections of a former lover. Gabriela Cabezón Cámara presents a lively feminist take on epic Martín Fierro in The Adventures of China Iron,...
Age 10-14
Sunday 18 August 17:00 - 18:00
Elizabeth Jones's A Dark Iris sees Rebekah learn the violent history of her homeland through magical appearances in her artwork. In Eloise Williams's Seaglass, Lark confronts a long-buried family secret after an outdoor expedition turns into a chilling...
Ramallah in reflection
Sunday 18 August 17:30 - 18:30
Going Home: A Walk Through Fifty Years of Occupation is Raja Shehadeh’s absorbing account of a day-long walk through Ramallah, the Palestinian city of his birth, on the anniversary of its occupation. As he walks, he considers the political...
Present Imperfect
Sunday 18 August 17:30 - 18:15
Curated and chaired by Freedom from Torture, today’s authors read the work of participants in the ‘Write to Life’ programme. The selection of writing considers how, having found safety in asylum, life is often far from perfect for victims of...
20 year celebration
Sunday 18 August 18:30 - 19:30
Despite looking like a porcelain-faced 12 year old, Luke Wright’s clocked up twenty years treading the boards from rural bar rooms to the London Palladium and drenching microphones in spittle. Performing poems from his new pamphlet After Engine...
Learning about history
Sunday 18 August 18:45 - 19:45
The Young Walter Scott Prize rewards work encompassing writing and history. Join Chae Strathie, creator of the So You Think You’ve Got It Bad? series and Dan Smith, author of exciting YA Viking adventure She Wolf, to hear how they combine the two....
Changed
After the apocalypse
Sunday 18 August 19:00 - 20:00
If you’re searching for original, ineffably readable fiction, look no further. Cumbria-born Katie Hale’s My Name is Monster is the story of a woman named Monster who washes up on a post-apocalyptic shore. From the Dominican Republic, musician and...
Cold cases hotting up
Sunday 18 August 19:15 - 20:15
Ex-Chief Constable Bob Skinner is enjoying his 30th anniversary as a fictional character and in book number 30, Cold Case, his Scottish creator Quintin Jardine turns the screw on him once again. When a journalist uncovers fresh evidence about a case...
Feeding the World, Saving the Planet
Sunday 18 August 19:30 - 21:00
How do we feed the world and look after the planet? And can we do it fairly? Could food become a bridge to a better world? Our experts shed light on some of the biggest questions we face today and discuss what our future might look like. The panel is...
Poetry in the raw
Sunday 18 August 20:30 - 21:30
Poems of identity and the experience of living with deafness populate The Perseverance, the Ted Hughes Award-winning debut collection from British Jamaican poet Raymond Antrobus. Meanwhile, following his hit novels Submarine and The Adulterants, Joe...
Book Festival's Associate Director to Step Down 
