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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.

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    Holly Smale & Catherine Wilkins: Teen Geeks

    Age 10-14

    Monday 12 August 13:45 - 14:45

    Holly Smale & Catherine Wilkins: Teen Geeks
    Bestselling author of Geek Girl, Holly Smale returns with the first hysterically funny book in her brand new series The Valentines. Happy Girl Lucky has been described as ‘Little Women meets the Kardashians’! Writer and stand-up comedian Catherine...

    Kieran Larwood: Battles and Bunnies

    Age 10-14

    Monday 12 August 14:00 - 15:00

    Kieran Larwood: Battles and Bunnies
    Fans of fantasy fiction – and of rabbits – will love Kieran Larwood’s award-winning The Five Realms series. He joins us to talk about The Beasts of Grimheart, the third thrilling instalment of Podkin the rabbit’s epic battle against the Gorm....

    Emmanuel Iduma & Jamal Mahjoub

    Environmental Maps

    Monday 12 August 14:15 - 15:15

    Emmanuel Iduma & Jamal Mahjoub
    Two writers from the African continent have produced works of non-fiction that forge fascinating new perspectives on identity, place and memory. A Line in the River charts Jamal Mahjoub’s attempts to rediscover Khartoum, the ‘fractured’ Sudanese...

    Colourful Canine Drawing

    All Ages

    Monday 12 August 14:30 - 16:30

    Colourful Canine Drawing
    Draw along with author and illustrator Shoo Rayner, creator of Walker: The Boy Who Can Talk to Dogs. From loud Labradors to posh Poodles, drop in to join in the doggy drawing fun. You would be barking mad to miss it!

    André Naffis-Sahely

    Out of Exile

    Monday 12 August 15:30 - 16:30

    André Naffis-Sahely
    Join writer, poet and translator André Naffis-Sahely as he discusses the editing of an ambitious, generous and far-reaching project. The Heart of A Stranger is a diverse anthology of poetry, fiction and non-fiction about exile, a truly global treasury,...

    Afternoon Tea with Caroline Eden

    Tastes of the Black Sea

    Monday 12 August 15:45 - 17:00

    Afternoon Tea with Caroline Eden
    From Potemkin cocktails to Mark Twain’s Debauched Ice Cream, the recipes discovered by Edinburgh-based food journalist Caroline Eden on a coastal journey from Odessa to the Turkish port of Trabzon are remarkable and revealing. Black Sea is her...

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