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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.
Join Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat, and Margie Orford, who penned the acclaimed Claire Hart thrillers, as they discuss how women confront male privilege and walk their own paths. In Harris’s A Narrow Door, an elite grammar school employs its first...
CNN anchor Zain E Asher lives in New York, where she hosts the network’s primetime global news show. Her siblings are an Oscar-winning actor, a doctor and a successful entrepreneur. But the origin of their accomplishments is the struggle of their...
From 22–26 August we’re bringing the outside inside in the Baillie Gifford Storytime Yurt. Immerse yourself in our beautiful woodland décor, take some time to unwind with the ambient sounds of nature and feel calmed by the atmospheric lighting....
In 1940, the British government ordered the internment of all German refugees in a camp on the Isle of Man. Behind the barbed wire were large numbers of talented experts and artists, who soon transformed the camp into a centre of creative endeavour....
Marjorie Lotfi and Claire Urquhart from Open Book, a charity that organises reading and creative writing groups, explore the fascinating, often heartbreaking genre of memoir. Join them for an open discussion on some key memoirs at this year’s...
Stomp, stamp and growl along in this immersive sensory event created specially for people of all ages with learning disabilities. Authors Anne and Steve Brusatte have been working with inclusive arts specialists The Arts End of Somewhere and the PAMIS...
In the 100 years since Hugh MacDiarmid first appeared in print, the poet’s reputation has soared and dived: was he the greatest cultural revolutionary in modern Scotland or the symbol of everything hideously wrong with the nation? Join researcher...
China, the USA and Britain: three nations at very different stages in their imperial trajectories. Yet each has fought to retain power – often by questionable means. Three experts come together to compare these superpower states: Kerry Brown’s Xi...
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.
Verónica Baruq returns from a life abroad to the Caribbean island of San Andrés and discovers that she doesn’t truly know who she is or where she’s from. Cristina Bendek’s Salt Crystals, which won the Colombian Elisa Mújica National Novel...
The line-up for the 2022 Book Festival is revealed 
