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Scots Bookbug

Suitable for age 0 - 2

Friday 15 August 10:00 - 10:30

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Why not try? Find Your Super Power with Tracey Baptiste and Dapo Adeola Find Your Super Power with Tracey Baptiste and Dapo Adeola Suitable for age 3 - 5 Sat 23 Aug 11:15 - 12:15
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Are You Sitting Comfortably?

Suitable for age 3 - 5

Friday 15 August 10:00 - 10:30

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Join us for a relaxed morning story especially for your littlest readers. Check website for today’s author…
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Mairi Kidd & Lesley McDowell: Reimagining History’s (Anti)Heroines

Friday 15 August 10:00 - 11:00

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Join Mairi Kidd and Lesley McDowell for a romp through 19th century Scotland as they discuss the craft of compelling character studies and inventing voices for women lost to time…
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Words from the Wards: The Exhibition

Friday 15 August 10:00 - 21:00

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Following the success of the Words from the Wards project, we worked with Edinburgh College of Art students to illustrate the collected stories. Join us to view the stories and illustrations side by side in our new festival gallery…
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Under the Sea with the Sensory Sessions

Suitable for age 0 - 2

Friday 15 August 10:00 - 10:50

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Why not try? Are You Sitting Comfortably? Are You Sitting Comfortably? Suitable for age 3 - 5 Sat 9 Aug 10:00 - 10:30
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Reeta Chakrabarti: Finding Belle

Friday 15 August 10:15 - 11:15

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Reeta Chakrabarti will be familiar to anyone who has watched BBC news, but now she has made the leap from journalist and chief newsreader to novelist…
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First Edition: Behind Investigations

Friday 15 August 10:30 - 11:30

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Start your day with the facts. High quality, thorough, and trustworthy journalism has never been more important in helping us understand the world as it really is, so in our First Edition events you can join leading journalists from across the media (and…
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Open Book Shared Reading

Friday 15 August 11:00 - 12:00

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Join Open Book Lead Readers for an informal and relaxed shared reading session…
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Scots Bookbug

Suitable for age 0 - 2

Friday 15 August 11:00 - 11:30

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Bring yer wee yins alang fir a Scots Bookbug wi sangs, rhymes, an stories. Abody’s welcome, whither ye’re a gallus Scots speaker or a wee feartie!…
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Under the Sea with the Sensory Sessions

Suitable for age 0 - 2

Friday 15 August 11:10 - 12:00

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Why not try? That's Not My Zoo with Vanessa Woolf That's Not My Zoo with Vanessa Woolf Suitable for age 0 - 2 Mon 18 Aug 13:00 - 13:30