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...
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...
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...
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...
Grab a drink from the bar and settle in for some serious literary revelry. An enticing line-up of talent (revealed in The Skinny and on our website in July) plays with words, music and a lot more every night of the Festival.
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