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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.
In 1985, Raja Shehadeh’s father Aziz was murdered in a pre-meditated knife attack. The circumstances of the crime are the subject of his Strangers in the House. Today, through his new memoir, Shehadeh sheds a different light on the father-son...
Tha Cora air ais san eilean, aig taigh Granaidh-aiseig, an t-àite as fheàrr leatha san t-saoghal. Tha gràineag bhochd feumach air cuideachadh, ach dè ’s urrainn do Chora a dhèanamh dhi? Le òrain, spòrs agus beagan taice bho Phaella, dè...
Can the truth save those who have been condemned for something other than a crime? Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2021, The Fortune Men takes us to Cardiff ’s multicultural Tiger Bay in 1952, where Mahmood Mattan is accused of murder. He feels...
What new ways of thinking and feeling can guide us through rapid climate change? Activist and writer Jessica Gaitán Johannesson uses the body and its vulnerabilities to comprehend the climate crisis in her raw collection of essays, The Nerves and Their...
Tha Cora air ais san eilean, aig taigh Granaidh-aiseig, an t-àite as fheàrr leatha san t-saoghal. Tha gràineag bhochd feumach air cuideachadh, ach dè ’s urrainn do Chora a dhèanamh dhi? Le òrain, spòrs agus beagan taice bho Phaella, dè...
Can writers give us a fresh perspective on global and local issues? Each afternoon a leading writer discusses books, research and ideas confronting this time of uncertainty and change.
Join Yvette Fielding, TV presenter of Most Haunted and author of spine-chilling books The House in the Woods and The Ripper of Whitechapel for a spook-tastic walking tour around Edinburgh. Along with Most Haunted’s director, Karl Beattie and expert...
The line-up for the 2022 Book Festival is revealed 
