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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.
Queer Up: An Uplifting Guide to LGBTQ+ Love, Life and Mental Health is the debut book from award-winning podcaster and author, Alexis Caught. In this open, helpful and heart-warming event for teenage school pupils, Alexis takes you through an inclusive...
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.
Three writers discuss their books in which women encounter death and re-evaluate the bodies in which they live. Mortimer’s semi-autobiographical tour de force Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies charts a daughter’s relationship with her dying mother. In...
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....
Come and meet some of the brilliantly imaginative authors shortlisted for this year’s YA Book Prize as they read from and talk about their – potentially – award-winning books with Caroline Carpenter: Simon James Green, Holly Bourne, Tanya Byrne,...
It’s a pervasive belief that early human history involved a pivotal bargain; when cities and agriculture developed, primitive hunter-gatherers exchanged their freedom and equality for the hierarchies of civilisation. This is far from the truth, argue...