Monday 15 August 16:15 - 17:15
Sarah Moss reflects on lockdown in her eighth novel, The Fell, set in the Peak District. She follows four characters – in particular, the mother of a worrisome teenager – negotiating safety, fellow feeling and freedom in the context of government...
Monday 15 August 16:30 - 17:30
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The last time American author Amy Bloom came to the Book Festival in 2014 to talk about Lucky Us, she travelled with her husband Brian. In 2020 they made a very different kind of journey together – to Switzerland where Brian was helped by Dignitas to...
Monday 15 August 17:00 - 17:45
This year, we asked people across Scotland – of any age, background or ability – to submit their own stories responding to the prompt ‘On This Day’, to build a fascinating portrait of Scotland today. Every day at 17:00 different storytellers...
Monday 15 August 17:00 - 19:00
As well as being a writer, editor and critic Daniel Hahn has produced more than 70 translations of literary fiction from Portuguese, Spanish and French into English, many of them award-winning. Today, Hahn leads you through the process of translating...
Monday 15 August 17:30 - 18:30
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Louise Welsh burst onto the Scottish detective fiction scene in 2002 with The Cutting Room. Her enigmatic protagonist Rilke, auctioneer, cruiser, man of indeterminate morals, has retained his place in readers’ hearts for two decades, as has his...
Monday 15 August 17:30 - 18:30
Revel in the possibilities of art with Signe Gjessing and Selby Wynn Schwartz. Prize-winning Danish poet Signe Gjessing presents Tractatus Philosophico-Poeticus, reimagining Wittgenstein’s seminal philosophical text of 1922 to make language and...
Monday 15 August 18:15 - 19:15
We welcome Domenico Starnone to celebrate the English edition of his 2019 novel, Trust, translated by Jhumpa Lahiri. Starnone has written over 13 books, earning him Italy’s highest literary prize, the Strega. In Trust, lovers Pietro and Teresa tell...
Monday 15 August 19:00 - 20:00
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It was a family whose fortune was built up by Valium, then destroyed by Oxycontin. Patrick Radden Keefe’s electrifying history, Empire of Pain, won the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction, but he discusses the challenges he faced in publishing...
Monday 15 August 19:30 - 20:30
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Returning for its third year, Stories and Scran celebrates the dynamic and thought-provoking work created by participants in Citizen, our long-term creative programme offering local people a platform to explore identity and place. Enjoy a snack and a...
Monday 15 August 20:15 - 21:15
Booker-Prize finalist NoViolet Bulawayo joins us to discuss the ruthlessness of absolute power and the hope that underpins resistance. In her razor-sharp Glory, a long-serving leader falls and a country implodes. Bearing witness to the chaos, a goat...
The line-up for the 2022 Book Festival is revealed 
