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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...
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    Masterclass: Life and Fiction

    Hone Your Creative Writing

    Monday 12 August 14:00 - 16:30

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    Join Alexander Chee for a masterclass exploring the intricacies and surprising similarities between fiction and non-fiction writing. Chee is an award-winning American novelist, essayist, poet, journalist and associate professor of English at Dartmouth...

    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....
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    Giles Yeo

    Do or Diet?

    Monday 12 August 14:00 - 15:00

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    Whenever the latest dieting fad comes along, those promoting new theories are well fed on the proceeds, while many people trying to shed pounds are left wondering why nothing seems to work. Meet Giles Yeo, geneticist and presenter on BBC’s Trust Me,...

    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!
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    Melanie Reid

    Surviving disaster

    Monday 12 August 15:15 - 16:15

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    Melanie Reid’s world fell apart when she suffered a broken neck in a horse-riding accident in 2010. The award-winning writer of the ‘Spinal Column’ for the Times was paralysed from the top of her chest down, and during the year she spent in...
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    Courageous Crabs with Chris Haughton

    Age 3-6

    Monday 12 August 15:15 - 16:15

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    The multi award-winning creator of much-loved picture books including A Bit Lost and Goodnight Everyone introduces you to the courageous character from his brand new book Don’t Worry, Little Crab. Little Crab is excited to go for a dip in the sea…...

    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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