Your browser is outdated, and does not support some features used by our website.
We recommend using a recent version of Chrome, Firefox, Edge, or Safari. You may continue to explore the site in this browser, but most interactive features will not work as expected.
Hundreds of events for adults, teenagers and children feature authors, illustrators, musicians, poets, policians, thinkers, prize-winners and rising stars every August.
After a big storm, the Kingdom of Birds is looking for a leader. But what qualities are needed in a king? The loveliest song? The brightest plumage? Singer-songwriter Karine Polwart and illustrator Kate Leiper bring this vivid story of leadership,...
Outside the bunker, the world is reeling from a cataclysmic event; inside the bunker, a select few wait for it to heal – including Wolfe, who guards the medicine. Rachelle Atalla’s debut The Pharmacist shows us that even in a place of apparent...
Albania was one of the world’s most isolated countries under the rule of Enver Hoxha during its communist period. Lea Ypi grew up under Hoxha, then witnessed communism’s collapse and the country’s transformation to a flawed market economy. Today,...
20 percent of Paris’s population are immigrants but they are often relegated to the margins of the city. The outsider experience is central to two prize-winning autobiographical novels by Fatima Daas and Shumona Sinha. In her rhapsodic debut, The Last...
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...
Backstabbing, scandal and, most importantly, heart-swooning romance are at the core of the new novels from Benjamin Dean and Simon James Green. In Dean’s The King is Dead, Prince James is suddenly thrust into the spotlight as he takes the throne...
Join writer Lola Olufemi for an open discussion on two books that offer profound insights into the marginalising effects of white heteropatriarchal societies. Preti Taneja’s Aftermath, a lament for a friend killed in a London attack in 2019, is a...
Whether it’s discussing linguistics with Foucault in a televised debate, authoring more than 100 books or being a fierce critic of American foreign policy, Noam Chomsky has been a highly influential figure for nearly seven decades. Now in his mid 90s,...
18 year old Mira takes a job at Lavender Island Wilderness Lodge. Surrounded by tourists seeking adventure, she divides her energies between erotic daydreams about a young fisherman and eagle-eyed observation of her colleagues’ behaviour. When Stu,...