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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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    Sue Perkins

    Blundering Through Asia

    Tuesday 20 August 18:45 - 19:45

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    After her sell-out Book Festival appearance in 2016, beloved broadcaster Sue Perkins is back to take us all East of Croydon. Her new book charts her odyssey through South East Asia; a journey which took her along the great Mekong River through Thailand,...

    Cracking the Reading Code

    Learning to Love Books

    Tuesday 20 August 19:00 - 20:00

    Cracking the Reading Code
    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,...

    Adapting Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

    Age 12+

    Tuesday 20 August 19:00 - 20:15

    Adapting Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
    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...

    Denise Mina & Matt Wesolowski

    Where Truth and Crime Meet

    Tuesday 20 August 19:15 - 20:15

    Denise Mina & Matt Wesolowski
    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...
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    Brexit: Falling Out

    Has it changed the UK and its standing forever?

    Tuesday 20 August 19:30 - 21:00

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    Whatever the outcome, Brexit has changed how the UK is viewed at home, internationally and even how other countries approach their own political disillusionment. This discussion brings together academics, politicians and commentators to examine the...
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    Ian Rankin

    Criminally Good Fiction

    Tuesday 20 August 20:30 - 21:30

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    There’s no stopping Rebus. Ian Rankin’s iconic detective has recently made a stage debut in Long Shadows and will be resurrected on TV in a new series by Black Watch playwright Gregory Burke. The latest Rebus novel, In a House of Lies, is one of the...

    Jenny Lindsay

    Going Off Script

    Tuesday 20 August 20:30 - 21:30

    Jenny Lindsay
    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...

    Holly Black & Samantha Shannon

    A Fantasia of Fantasy

    Tuesday 20 August 20:45 - 21:45

    Holly Black & Samantha Shannon
    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...

    Unbound with Edinburgh Gin

    Tongue Fu

    Tuesday 20 August 21:00 - 23:00

    Unbound with Edinburgh Gin
    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...

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