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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.
Wendy Erskine’s award-winning debut appeared on multiple prize shortlists and was optioned for TV. Her second book, Dance Move, packs a similar emotional punch: a housewife recalls a teenage love affair; a pop singer accepts a compromising gig; a...
In her number one Sunday Times bestseller, Gallant, V E Schwab tells the darkly magical tale of a young woman caught between the world and its shadows. In Her Dark Wings, three-time Carnegie-nominated author Melinda Salisbury takes us to the edge of the...
Singer-songwriter Christine Pillainayagam introduces her hilarious YA debut novel, Ellie Pillai is Brown. Hear about Ellie’s disastrous experiences navigating first love, strict parents, friendships and a dramatic personality. Bring a notebook and...
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...
Writing personal essays brings unique challenges. How do you capture the particularity of the personal whilst still connecting with bigger ideas and themes? How do you stop the emotional from eclipsing the rational and vice versa? Andy West confronted...
With lockdown not long lifted, already we have two masterful pandemic-inspired, Scottish novels. The residents of a Scottish island are stranded by a mysterious illness in C A Fletcher’s Dead Water and the community descends into mass hysteria....
Denise Mina grows more fascinating with every book she brings out. The first book in the Anna and Fin series was named a joint winner of the McIlvanny Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year 2019. Now, Confidence brings us another meta-story starring...
Like Ali Smith, Lydia Davis and José Saramago, Chilean writer Alejandro Zambra makes work that’s both thoughtful and profoundly insightful. His latest novel, Chilean Poet, is set in a country that boasts two Nobel Prize-winning poets: Pablo Neruda...
On sun-soaked Corfu, fixer McIntyre thinks he’s got an easy job ahead of him – but he quickly finds that things are a lot shadier than they seem. Described as a ‘perfect read’ by the Guardian, Charlie Higson’s new novel, Whatever Gets You...
Described by Kathryn Schulz as ‘one of our greatest critics’, Geoff Dyer is a master of observation – and admirably unpredictable. He discusses The Last Days of Roger Federer, a meditation on how it feels when an ending is in sight. In a...
The line-up for the 2022 Book Festival is revealed 
