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Hundreds of events for adults, teenagers and children feature authors, illustrators, musicians, poets, policians, thinkers, prize-winners and rising stars every August.
Discover your next great read with Edinburgh Libraries’s Dr Book. From an injection of comedy to a healthy dose of horror the doctor has a reading prescription to make everyone feel better. Drop in for a quick and painless consultation and you’ll...
Children’s author Lauren Ace and illustrator Jenny Løvlie join forces again in their beautiful picture book, The Boys, following up on their 2019 Waterstones Children's Book Prize Illustrated Book of the Year, The Girls. Tracing the journeys of four...
Each day, a Festival author shares an unexpected inspiration or passion. Join them to crack open the curiosity cabinet, revealing the stories behind their books or side projects.
How can art survive in a world that seems increasingly meaningless – where mass deaths and the fragmentation of society threaten everything we hold dear? This question is at the heart of this event and of Burntcoat, the searing lockdown novel from...
Join two bestselling novelists as they discuss displacement, cruelty and the strength of unlikely attachments. In Hannah Kent’s Devotion, teenage Hanne finds a kindred spirit in Thea – but Thea’s Old Lutheran family are leaving in search of...
TV’s Most Haunted presenter Yvette Fielding returns to share her super scary story The Ripper of Whitechapel. In this latest instalment of The Ghost Hunter Chronicles, Eve, Clovis and Tom investigate a haunted school. But why are the ghosts there? And...
Join author and illustrator Morag Hood for her wacky teatime stories Teapot Trouble and Spaghetti Hunters, featuring laugh-out-loud characters Duck and Tiny Horse (with his trampoline). Find out who is living inside Duck’s teapot and draw your own...
Who better to turn to in trying times than literature’s undisputed king of kindness, Alexander McCall Smith? He has new books to introduce, including the deliciously quirky Tiny Tales, the latest Number 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency novel and a...
Mieko Kawakami’s award-winning early novel, Breasts and Eggs, divided opinions: the conservative governor of Tokyo called it ‘unpleasant and intolerable’, while Irish novelist Naoise Dolan holds ‘Mieko Kawakami is a genius’. In today’s...