Sunday 17 August 12:00 - 13:00
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The Independent called Jonathan Coe the 'funniest serious novelist' in Britain. In The Proof of My Innocence, a blistering political critique of a chaotic post-Brexit Britain gets wrapped up in a murder mystery featuring a trepidatious reporter, a…
Suitable for age 3 - 5
Sunday 17 August 12:15 - 13:15
When ice starts to melt at the North Pole, a polar bear sets off on an adventure that takes him all the way to Elmer’s jungle! But how will the polar bear get home? Pantomime dame Mama G and illustrator Marysia Milewski share songs, drawings, and a brand-…
Suitable for age 6 - 9
Sunday 17 August 13:00 - 14:00
Look out! A new graphic novel series is exploding its way onto our bookshelves. Meet Nova, a young super scientist with a thirst for knowledge, experiments, and adventures. Just like a supernova in the sky, she’s blazing with energy and excitement!…
Sunday 17 August 13:30 - 14:30
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Did you know that years before Alice Oseman started writing, drawing, or even planning the smash-hit graphic novel series, Heartstopper, she released a novella about its two main characters: Nick and Charlie? Come along today to hear Alice chat about…
Sunday 17 August 13:30 - 14:30
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Join inventive writers, Michelle de Kretser and Linn Ullmann, discussing their category-defying works that so searingly explore power, womanhood, and memory…
Suitable for age 6 - 9
Sunday 17 August 14:15 - 15:15
Draw along with global bestselling author and comics creator Jim Smith celebrating his full-colour graphic novel series, My Big Fat Smelly Poo Diary. Join Jim as he introduces the hilarious and lovable characters, best friends Pedro, Olga, and Ozzy (AKA…
Sunday 17 August 15:15 - 16:15
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Nimble, playful, canny, subversive – four-time Booker-shortlisted Ali Smith returns to the Festival with Gliff. Written with her singular blend of whimsy and gravitas, the novel is a near-future dystopia, meditating on themes of resistance, the making of…
Sunday 17 August 17:00 - 18:00
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Join lifelong literary radical James Kelman, whose commitment to the power and truth of 'ordinary' life - sometimes tragic, but always inspiringly tender and human - remains undimmed. Talking today about his new collections of short fiction (The Story of…
Sunday 17 August 18:45 - 19:45
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Following the runaway success of her debut novel, How to Kill Your Family, bestselling author Bella Mackie joins us at the Festival. Her new hilarious murder mystery, What a Way to Go, centres on the thoroughly repugnant Anthony Wistern and his equally……
Sunday 17 August 20:00 - 21:00
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Meet the authors of two poetic novels where young queer characters come of age. In Dylin Hardcastle's A Language of Limbs, the aftermath of one summer night ripples across decades as two teenage girls decide whether to act on their desires. In Open…
Full 2025 Book Festival programme is announced with key theme of Repair