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 800 events, including novelists, poets, scientists, sportsmen, illustrators, comics creators, historians, musicians, biographers, Nobel and Booker prize-winners and many more besides.
Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge was the first in history to reach the ‘three poles’ – North, South and the summit of Everest. He’s also the bestselling author of Silence. His latest book is Walking, an illuminating, quietly life-changing...
Authors must fight for survival in an apocalyptic dystopian hellscape designed at random by sadistic audience members. Dave Cook, author of Killtopia and Vessels, and David Lumsden, the writer behind book and short film Boat, talk about their works and...
The release of Linton Kwesi Johnson’s Dread Beat an’ Blood album 40 years ago – a collection of radical political spoken poetry – established ‘dub-poetry’ as a new literary genre and introduced the Jamaican-born artist as a genuine literary...
Join one of our Festival authors each morning for a magical half hour of storytelling, poetry, song or rhyme. This daily changing event is suitable for children of all ages. Appearing today: Craigmillar Books for Babies with Polish Rhymetime....
Philip Long is director of the V&A Dundee and co-editor of The Story of Scottish Design. Together with Joanna Norman, curator of the museum’s Scottish Design Galleries, Long presents a broad survey of 500 years of great Scottish design and pioneering...
A small yet perfectly formed reading from one of our Festival authors to start your day. Check the screen in the Entrance Tent to see who's reading today.
While horror fans lap up blood and gore, the subtlety of a well-told ghost story can chill a reader to the bones. House of Glass, by Whitbread First Novel Award-winning Susan Fletcher, features love, lies and ghosts as Britain enters the First World...
Join illustrator Kasia Matyjaszek for a bilingual safari with storytelling, drawing and crafts. Learn about wild animals in Polish and English, help to create a big mural and make your own picture books.
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Matt Hopwood is the founder of the popular Human Love Story Project, having walked thousands of miles looking for and recording strangers’ love stories. Mother: A Human Love Story is a charming curation of 22 real life experiences of motherhood,...
In his new book The Courier, Kjell Ola Dahl, aka the godfather of Nordic Noir, tracks between the 1960s and the Second World War through characters haunted by betrayal and death. Mary Paulson-Ellis follows up her 2017 Waterstones Scottish Book of the...
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