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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.
Come and hear from two of the greatest writers for young adults as they talk about their new novels, both love stories in their own way and both based in Scotland. In Stay Another Day, Juno Dawson weaves three siblings’ experiences over one Christmas...
What would the planet look like if you designed it? This was the question Ryan Van Winkle, our Schools Writer in Residence, has been exploring with local pupils as part of Citizen, our long-term creative programme. Drop in anytime between 11:00 and...
Reading Lola Olufemi is, according to the Guardian, ‘to believe that another world is possible’. Olufemi’s Experiments in Imagining Otherwise is a rallying cry for political change informed by Black feminism and activism. It’s a torrent of...
Join author and poet Michael Rosen as he takes you on a trip around some of his best-loved books of all time. Michael’s poetry covers the full spectrum of human life and in this event expect to be treated to poems on migration, Michael’s recovery...
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.
Maylis de Kerangal’s Eastbound tells the story of a Russian conscript looking for escape on the Trans-Siberian railway and finding a French woman who might offer it. The Khan, Saima Mir’s debut, follows a British-Asian lawyer as she returns to her...
What would the planet look like if you designed it? This was the question Ryan Van Winkle, our Schools Writer in Residence, has been exploring with local pupils as part of Citizen, our long-term creative programme. Drop in anytime between 11:00 and...