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    One City: A Just Capital?

    Monday 23 August 11:30 - 12:30

    One City: A Just Capital?
    In 2005, the OneCity Trust and some of Edinburgh’s most famous authors created One City, a collection of short stories with the aim of fighting poverty and social exclusion across the city. January 2022 will see the publication of a new One City...
     

    Jessie Greengrass & Gwendoline Riley: The Agony of Love

    Monday 23 August 13:00 - 14:00

    Jessie Greengrass & Gwendoline Riley: The Agony of Love
    ‘Jessie Greengrass makes words dance. And she makes me want to stand up and dance with them.’ Elif Shafak’s selection of Greengrass as one of ten exciting women writers in the UK coincides neatly with the publication of her second novel, The High...
     

    Jon McGregor: Writing Taken to Extremes

    Monday 23 August 13:15 - 14:15

    Jon McGregor: Writing Taken to Extremes
    What happens when three explorers lose each other during a terrifying storm on a glacier in the Antarctic? Jon McGregor’s novel Lean Fall Stand answers that question in a thrilling opening sequence inspired by an Antarctic research trip he himself...
     

    Alison Bechdel: Can Exercise Fix Us?

    Monday 23 August 14:30 - 15:30

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    Alison Bechdel: Can Exercise Fix Us?
    Yoga with Adriene, wild-swimming, step-trackers, Strava: just a few of the trends that have dominated the fitness industry – and our lives – in recent years. What does our fitful relationship with exercise tell us about who we are today? American...
     

    Amartya Sen: Home and Humanity

    Monday 23 August 16:00 - 17:00

    Amartya Sen: Home and Humanity
    Amartya Sen is Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. His many books include The Idea of Justice, a critique of existing theories of social justice, with which he last visited the Book Festival in 2010. Now, Professor Sen has...
     

    Minouche Shafik: Recipe for a Better Society

    Monday 23 August 16:15 - 17:15

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    Minouche Shafik: Recipe for a Better Society
    We live in a world of discontent: four out of every five people in China, Europe, India, and the United States feel that the system is not working for them. This is a time of polarized politics, culture wars, conflicts over inequality and race, tensions...
     

    Reading Scotland: Graeme Armstrong, Welcome tae Airdrie

    Monday 23 August 17:30 - 18:30

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    Reading Scotland: Graeme Armstrong, Welcome tae Airdrie
    In the former industrial heartlands of North Lanarkshire, Graeme Armstrong’s urgent debut novel The Young Team pulls back the curtain on the lives of young men as they navigate the friendship, turf wars and stereotypes of Scottish masculinity. Based...
     

    Natasha Brown & Olivia Sudjic: Unravelling Lives

    Monday 23 August 19:00 - 20:00

    Natasha Brown & Olivia Sudjic: Unravelling Lives
    How do we manage the carefully assembled pieces of our lives, and what happens when events out of our control leave us exposed? These questions seem to haunt both Olivia Sudjic’s Asylum Road, and Natasha Brown’s Assembly. In Sudjic’s intensely...
     

    Damon Galgut: Ghosts of Apartheid

    Monday 23 August 19:15 - 20:15

    Damon Galgut: Ghosts of Apartheid
    South African novelist Damon Galgut has already had two novels shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Could The Promise go a step further? That’s certainly what the critics are suggesting in their glowing reviews of this latest offering. Like his other...
     

    Songs from Scotland

    Monday 23 August 20:30 - 21:30

    Songs from Scotland
    In honour of Edwin Morgan’s centenary in 2020, the Edinburgh International Book Festival and Celtic Connections co-commissioned award-winning musician and composer Gavin Bryars to set five of Morgan’s poems to music. The poems, taken from Morgan’s...

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