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Scots Fairytales with Ashley Douglas and Kate Osmond

Suitable for age 9 - 11

Saturday 16 August 14:45 - 15:45

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The Lass and The Quine is a fairytale for the modern day, a story that challenges the tales you already know – and it’s all in Scots!…
 

Caroline O’Donoghue: Sentimental Garbage – Live

Saturday 16 August 15:00 - 16:00

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Novelist Caroline O’Donoghue’s wildly popular Sentimental Garbage podcast is an emotionally-invested, quick-witted celebration of cultural and social topics which may seem frivolous, but hold huge meaning in our hearts, and live rent-free in our brains…
 

Gurnaik Johal & Madeleine Thien: Places in Flux

Saturday 16 August 15:00 - 16:00

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Take imaginative flight with two international novelists whose work takes us to truly marvellous realms…
 

Meet Pikachu

All ages

Saturday 16 August 15:00 - 15:30

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Pikachu, I choose YOU! Come along and meet everyone’s favourite electric-type Pokémon for a special appearance at the Book Festival. Don’t miss the opportunity to give Pikachu a wave or pose like a Pokémon trainer for a photo!…
 

Suzanne O'Sullivan: The Age of Diagnosis

Saturday 16 August 15:15 - 16:15

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In her gripping book, The Age of Diagnosis, leading neurologist Suzanne O’Sullivan explores the increasingly blurry boundaries between sickness and health…
 

Tony Tulathimutte: Loser’s Manifesto

Saturday 16 August 15:15 - 16:15

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Tony Tulathimutte’s Rejection – a National Book Award-longlisted novel-in-stories – is so gratuitously of-the-moment it hurts. Garth Greenwell has called it ‘a book of mad, madcap genius’ – it’s sex and relationships through a prism of identity, memes……
 

Shon Faye: Love Without Bounds

Saturday 16 August 16:00 - 17:00

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In Love in Exile, Shon Faye (author of the acclaimed bestseller The Transgender Issue) explores what happens when we break the constraints of conventionality and embrace love in all its forms…
 

Drawing Elmer with Marysia Milewski

Suitable for age 3 - 5

Saturday 16 August 16:30 - 17:30

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Colouring-in pencils at the ready as Marysia Milewski takes you through an illustration workshop based on everyone’s favourite patchwork elephant: Elmer…
 

Alayo Akinkugbe & Zarina Muhammad: Rewriting Art History

Saturday 16 August 16:45 - 17:45

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Can we trust art history as it’s conventionally told? And who writes its story from now?…
 

An All Star Poetry Line Up

Saturday 16 August 16:45 - 17:45

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Sometimes, only poetry will do. There’s something in the concentrated way poets see the world that can open us up to new ways of seeing, thinking, and hoping too…