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.
Barrington Stoke specialises in publishing super-readable children’s books which break down the barriers that can stop kids getting into reading. They host this event with Sally Gardner, author of Mr Tiger, Betsy and the Sea Dragon, Alex Wheatle,...
Dougie Irvine, Artistic Director of Visible Fictions Theatre Company, and Oscar Silva, Portuguese director and theatre maker, give you a fascinating insight into their collaborative dramatic and bilingual adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s seminal...
If you're addicted to true crime podcasts, the new page-turners discussed today give you good reason to remove those headphones. McIlvanney Prize winner Denise Mina’s Conviction involves a woman plunging wrecklessly into a podcast's unsolved mystery...
This Script is the second collection from prominent Edinburgh performance poet Jenny Lindsay, the founder of Flint and Pitch, a vital platform for new voices in the spoken word scene. Described as 'a densely packed firework of poetic feminism', the...
Samantha Shannon’s first novel outside her much-loved The Bone Season series is The Priory of the Orange Tree, a masterpiece of worldbuilding that’s had fantasy fans reaching for the superlatives. The bestselling first book in Holly Black’s The...
One of the UK’s best spoken word shows, Tongue Fu brings awesome energy and improvisation to the Spiegeltent. Poets jostle with storytellers, rappers rub up against comedians as they perform to jaw-dropping improvised soundtracks and films from the...