There are events for just about every age and interest at the Book Festival, bringing readers and writers together for inspiration, entertainment and discussion. Over 900 authors appear in around 800 events, including novelists, poets, scientists, sportsmen, illustrators, comics creators, historians, musicians, biographers, Nobel and Booker prize-winners and many more besides.
Journey into the heart of European history, from Old Norse sagas to Homeric epics, with two leading experts. In Beyond the Northlands, medievalist Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough takes readers to far-flung corners of the Viking world, while in Epic...
Top comedian and entertainer Harry Hill returns to the Festival with his latest comic caper, Matt Millz Stands Up! Matt is finally a star, but he’s been so busy soaking up the showbiz life that he hasn’t written any new jokes. Can Matt save himself...
Author and illustrator double act Abie Longstaff and Lauren Beard are back with the latest enchanting tale in their Fairytale Hairdresser series. This time round, Thumbelina is missing and it’s up to Kittie Lacey, the best hairdresser in all of...
New novels from Parker Bilal and James Oswald find investigators at different ends of crime-cracking careers. Following the success of his Makana Mystery series, Bilal’s The Divinities marks DS Calil Drake and Dr Rayhana Crane’s maiden voyage as...
Set sail on the School Ship Tobermory with much-loved Edinburgh author Alexander McCall Smith and illustrator Iain McIntosh as they present the fourth title in their hugely successful series, The Secret of the Dark Waterfall. This time the gang are on...
YouTube sensation Connie Glynn brings you the second instalment in her Rosewood Chronicles series. An ordinary girl and a princess have switched places. Two years later, they’re learning more about themselves and each other, but has someone figured...
What happens when words and ideas travel between languages? Never having met, Iban Zaldua and James Robertson spent six months exchanging letters in their native languages: Scots and Basque. They offer an intimate reflection on Europe, identity and...
Booker shortlisted novelist and historian Fiona Mozley leads you through Le Morte d'Arthur, written by Sir Thomas Malory during 1469 while imprisoned. It tells the famous legend of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere and the Knights of the Round Table....
Only dreamers or the desperate would cross the vast saltland deserts of Western Australia. So which is Jaxie Clacton, the lonely boy at the heart of Tim Winton’s brutal, tender novel The Shepherd’s Hut? It’s the latest masterful work by one of the...
Have you ever wished you could be a little bit taller? Or are you tired of towering over your friends? In Laura Ellen Anderson’s latest picture book, I Don’t Want to be Small, you'll discover that people come in all shapes and sizes. The...
2019 Programme Launched: We Need New Stories 
