Monday 18 August 13:15 - 14:15
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Political fiction helps us to make sense of, interrogate, and criticise the realities of enforced political systems on our daily lives. Today, we meet two eminent authors, Richard Lloyd Parry and Andrey Kurkov, to question - resistance at what cost?…
Suitable for age 0 - 2
Monday 18 August 14:00 - 14:30
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Join Dog, T-Rex, Mermaid, Penguin, and lots of That’s Not My… friends for this sensory storytelling adventure for little ones. Led by Usborne’s incredible professional storyteller, Vanessa Woolf, with great songs, bubbles, and more – it will be SO MUCH…
Monday 18 August 15:00 - 16:00
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Has the ultra-connected nature of modern life left humanity more lonely? Are some connections better severed? In Colum McCann's Twist, a journalist is sent to report on the repair of the undersea cables that make modern communication possible when the……
Monday 18 August 17:30 - 18:30
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Winner of the BBC National Short Story Award, Saba Sams joins us with Gunk, her pacey debut novel about love, family, and messily complex relationships. Joining her is Alessandra Thom, winner of 2023's Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award. Thom's…
Monday 18 August 18:30 - 19:30
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Ranging from communist Hungary to the London of the super-rich, David Szalay's Flesh unravels a man via a story collection hiding inside a novel. Today, meet an already garlanded writer; one blessed with rare authority when dealing with the most…
Monday 18 August 18:45 - 19:45
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Mark Haddon, who gave us the genre-defying The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, has always thought outside the box. That's especially true of his latest collection of stories, Dogs and Monsters: eclectic retellings of Greek myths wherein…
Suitable for age 3 - 5
Tuesday 19 August 10:00 - 10:30
Join us for a relaxed morning story especially for your littlest readers. Appearing today: Morag Hood…
Tuesday 19 August 11:30 - 12:30
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This event brings together two powerful writers, Abigail Dean (whose Girl A was a New York Times bestseller) and T.S. Eliot Prize winner Polly Clark: both masters of taut, thrillingly emotive writing. They join us today for a thought-provoking discussion…
Tuesday 19 August 12:15 - 13:15
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The mutifaceted Edward Carey is a novelist, playwright, and illustrator whose creations have a Gothic sensibility, at once enchanting and unsettling. His eccentric new work, Edith Holler, tells the story of a young woman trapped in a theatre she believes…
Tuesday 19 August 13:30 - 14:30
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s feverishly anticipated new novel, Dream Count, has been a decade in the making. Adichie offers an insight into her transcendent, powerful work, and how the choices we make – or which are made for us – can cast a longer shadow…
Full 2025 Book Festival programme is announced with key theme of Repair