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    Kathleen Jamie, Peter Mackay & Don Paterson: Heavenly Scottish Poetry

    Wednesday 25 August 17:30 - 18:30

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    Kathleen Jamie, Peter Mackay & Don Paterson: Heavenly Scottish Poetry
    ‘It’s Hell for the poet arriving for the gig’ – so began Liz Lochhead’s 2004 poem ‘Hell for Poets’. But perhaps what her poem really wanted to express is that hell itself (or the biggest challenges thrown at us in life) can often be...
     

    Willy Vlautin: The American Nightmare

    Wednesday 25 August 19:00 - 20:00

    Willy Vlautin: The American Nightmare
    Has there been a character in any recent novel more worthy of our compassion and sympathy than Lynette? She is the protagonist of Willy Vlautin’s latest book The Night Always Comes and she is trying her best to survive in Portland, Oregon, despite...
     

    Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: The Myth of Human Progress

    Wednesday 25 August 19:15 - 20:15

    Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: The Myth of Human Progress
    One of the greatest living writers, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o joins us by a live link from his home in Kenya. When he visited Edinburgh in 2018, Thiong’o discussed his detainment as a political prisoner in Kenya and his passionate advocacy for the use...
     

    Playing with Books: The Long Drop by Denise Mina

    Wednesday 25 August 20:30 - 22:00

    Playing with Books: The Long Drop by Denise Mina
    In the fourth year of our celebrated co-productions with the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, we present theatrical and musical explorations of scenes from much-loved books, followed by a discussion with the author and creative teams. The Long Drop is...
     

    Debi Gliori: A Man's Best Furry Friend

    Age 6+

    Thursday 26 August 10:00 - 10:35

    Debi Gliori: A Man's Best Furry Friend
    This is the story of a cat called Waverley and the man who belonged to him. When Donald has to go far, far away to fight in a strange land Waverley looks all over Edinburgh for him, but will he ever find his friend again? The renowned illustrator and...
     

    Inside Your Head with Brian Conaghan & Patrice Lawrence

    Age 11+

    Thursday 26 August 10:15 - 11:00

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    Inside Your Head with Brian Conaghan & Patrice Lawrence
    Join two award-winning writers to hear about their new novels, Rat and Cardboard Cowboys, which both explore the community around us and how we all make judgements about others, sometimes without even realising it. Covering topics of empathy,...
     

    Reading Scotland: Ross Sayers with Niamh McKeown, Adventures on the Clockwork Orange

    Thursday 26 August 11:30 - 12:30

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    Reading Scotland: Ross Sayers with Niamh McKeown, Adventures on the Clockwork Orange
    ‘Life isnae a fulm. It’s barely even a story. Thur’s nae such thing as gid guys and bad guys, thur’s jist... guys’. Welcome to Daisy’s worldview in Ross Sayers’s ingenious Scots-language novel for young adults, Daisy on the Outer Line. It...
     

    Will McPhail: Drawing Inspiration

    Thursday 26 August 13:00 - 14:00

    Will McPhail: Drawing Inspiration
    The drawing style of Will McPhail will be instantly recognisable to readers of the New Yorker or Private Eye, where his cartoons are regularly published. Now the cartoonist has turned his hand to his first full-length graphic novel, IN, and it’s set...
     

    Samanta Schweblin: Tales from the Uncanny Valley

    Thursday 26 August 13:15 - 14:15

    Samanta Schweblin: Tales from the Uncanny Valley
    When Samanta Schweblin burst onto the English-language literary scene in 2017, her evocations of the horrors that tinge everyday life struck a deep chord with readers. No surprise then, that all three of the Argentine author’s books, translated into...
     

    Raja Shehadeh: The Quest for Peace

    Thursday 26 August 14:30 - 15:30

    Raja Shehadeh: The Quest for Peace
    For many years, lawyer and writer Raja Shehadeh has shared his wisdom about life under occupation in the Palestinian West Bank. Each year he and his wife Penny travel from their home in Ramallah to spend the summer in Edinburgh, and Book Festival...

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