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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.
Just a month after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, more than 6 million people had fled the country and more than 4 million people were displaced within it. The largest migration in human history has gone on internally to industrial cities in China,...
Inspired by a personal quest to learn more about Britain’s role in the slave trade, Thomas Harding tells the story of the Demerara Uprising, a key trigger in the abolition of slavery, in White Debt. In Uncommon Wealth, Kojo Koram traces the group of...
Latinx voices are becoming increasingly audible in international poetry and Ada Limón is among the most exciting of them. Her best-known poems include takes on feminism in animalistic form and a perspective on being ‘othered’ so that organisations...
Charlie Roy’s The Broken Pane follows Tam’s flight into her past, after a tragic discovery throws her life off course. Karen Campbell’s Paper Cup journeys with Kelly, who is homeless and decides to leave the streets of Glasgow to return to her...
Get ready for a party as we celebrate the 50th book in the popular Busy Books series, Busy Party! Perfect for toddlers looking forward to celebrating their birthdays, this interactive event shows them what to expect, from decorating for the celebrations...
For 30 months, Will Ashon conducted interviews to create a sweeping oral history of Britain today and the result, The Passengers, reveals much more than you’d expect. When Will Buckingham lost his partner, he addressed his grief by opening his life to...
In 1991, Diana Gabaldon published Outlander, the tale of a post-Second World War nurse who accidentally time travels to Jacobite Scotland. Outlander became one of the bestselling book series of all time and spawned the hugely popular TV programme. In...
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.
Get ready for a party as we celebrate the 50th book in the popular Busy Books series, Busy Party! Perfect for toddlers looking forward to celebrating their birthdays, this interactive event shows them what to expect, from decorating for the celebrations...
Gabriel Krauze’s Who They Was is a visceral semi-autobiographical novel about a man living in the brutal gang world of south London while also studying for a degree. Ryan O’Connor’s The Voids, set in a condemned Glasgow high-rise full of...
The line-up for the 2022 Book Festival is revealed 
