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    Matt Haig

    Surviving and Thriving in 2019

    Thursday 22 August 17:00 - 18:00

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    Why not try? Thomas Keneally Thomas Keneally Homo Australis? Sun 25 Aug 17:00 - 18:00

    Darren Shan: Roll Up, Roll Up!

    Age 10-14

    Thursday 22 August 17:30 - 18:30

    Darren Shan: Roll Up, Roll Up! Buy Tickets
    Enter the Cirque Du Freak, home of the world’s most remarkable performers. You have your ticket, now take your seat, the show is about to begin… Darren Shan celebrates the 20th anniversary of his worldwide bestselling vampire series by taking you...

    Amnesty International Imprisoned Writers Series

    The situation is desperate

    Thursday 22 August 17:30 - 18:15

    Amnesty International Imprisoned Writers Series
    'The situation is desperate' are the last words of Daphne Caruana Galizia's final blog post, published the day she was killed. Every day around the world writers continue to share their words despite great personal risk. They suffer censorship,...

    C A Fletcher & Marcus Sedgwick: Crumbling Worlds

    Age 14+

    Thursday 22 August 17:45 - 18:45

    C A Fletcher & Marcus Sedgwick: Crumbling Worlds Buy Tickets
    Two hopeful stories find richness in barren dystopia. Griz has only met a handful of people in his life, so when his dog is stolen, C A Fletcher takes us to the edge of the world to rescue him. Award-winning author Marcus Sedgwick's desert world,...

    Throwing Voices: Agustina Bazterrica, John Burnside & Luke Sutherland

    A Scots-Argentine Musical Conversation

    Thursday 22 August 18:00 - 19:30

    Throwing Voices: Agustina Bazterrica, John Burnside & Luke Sutherland Buy Tickets
    Throwing Voices is a unique collaborative project looking at how local language, culture and tradition can resonate across linguistic divides. Using selected objects and words, Argentine writer Agustina Bazterrica and Scottish poet John Burnside share...

    Inspire a Generation with Science Books

    Their Future in Their Hands

    Thursday 22 August 18:30 - 19:30

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    Global warming, plastic pollution and species extinction are hot topics but what do these scary terms mean to children? Can we inspire them to take an environmental interest early on? Join eco-science teacher Sarah Eames and authors Nicola Davies and...

    Suketu Mehta

    A Manifesto on Free Movement

    Thursday 22 August 19:15 - 20:15

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    Having been away from Edinburgh since 2010, when he brought the award-winning Maximum City, we’re thrilled to welcome Suketu Mehta back with This Land Is Our Land – an impassioned defence of global migration. The West, he argues, is being destroyed...

    Trust in Crisis: Fact or Fiction?

    Have We Lost All Trust?

    Thursday 22 August 19:30 - 21:00

    Trust in Crisis: Fact or Fiction? Buy Tickets
    Bankers, clergy, journalists and politicians have all suffered crushing blows leading our trust in them to plummet. But the trends in trust are not what you might think from the headlines, so why do some groups talk up a perpetual ‘crisis of trust’?...

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