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Scribble & Scrawl with Jill Calder and Justin Davies

Suitable for age 6 - 9

Friday 22 August 13:00 - 14:30

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Get inspired by the sights and sounds in and around the Edinburgh Futures Institute and flex your creative muscles with children’s author Justin Davies and illustrator Jill Calder. Join them on a journey around the Book Festival…
 

Dragon Training with Cressida Cowell

Suitable for age 9 - 11

Friday 22 August 13:30 - 14:30

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Join Cressida Cowell for the launch of How to Train Your Dragon School, the latest novel in her Dragon World series! Hear all about Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third and his dragons and learn some epic writing and drawing tips from Cressida…
 

Gabriela Cabezón Cámara & Xiaolu Guo: Revisionist Reinventions

Friday 22 August 13:30 - 14:30

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Acclaimed author and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo joins International Booker Prize-shortlisted Gabriela Cabezón Cámara for an entrancing event exploring gender-blending historical narratives…
 

Writing Fantasy: A Workshop with Catherine Prasifka

Friday 22 August 14:00 - 15:30

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When you write fantasy, you open yourself up to the idea that anything could happen. This workshop with author Catherine Prasifka will outline different approaches to fantasy writing, covering plot structure, world building, and what happens when things…
 

Catherine Chidgey: Conscious Tissue

Friday 22 August 15:15 - 16:15

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Catherine Chidgey, the twice Women’s Prize-longlisted author of Pet, talks with us about her thrillingly unnerving dystopian vision, her magpie mind, and living in a world where some lives are valued less than others…
 

Elisa Levi & Sara Mesa: Spain’s New Literary Horizons

Friday 22 August 16:45 - 17:45

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Discover two bold new voices from Spain, recently published in English for the first time. Writing in the tradition of the Spanish literary greats, Elisa Levi and Sara Mesa’s fiction blend themes of belonging, coming of age, power dynamics, and rural…
 

Elaine Castillo, Chris McQueer & Catherine Prasifka: Virtually Reality

Friday 22 August 17:00 - 18:00

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An exploration of humanity at its most uncharted frontier. Today, we talk to Chris McQueer, Catherine Prasifka, and Elaine Castillo, who have each written compelling novels set in the parallel country of the internet…
 

Xiaolu Guo: A Whale of a Retelling

Friday 22 August 18:30 - 19:30

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Writer, artist, and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo is critically acclaimed in every medium she touches. Her novel Call Me Ishmaelle is a bold, playful, gender-swapping retelling of Moby Dick that reinvigorates Melville’s classic…
 

Irvine Welsh: The Second Summer of Love

Friday 22 August 18:45 - 19:45

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With its long-anticipated Trainspotting sequel, Men in Love, the gang ‘come up’ again during the anarchic, decadent peak of late 80s/early 90s rave culture. Edinburgh icon Welsh joins us to pose the timely question: is love really the drug all men crave?…
 

Kit de Waal: When You’re Busy Making Other Plans

Friday 22 August 19:30 - 20:30

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Fw people understand the vagueries of the human heart such as My Name Is Leon author Kit de Waal, who returns to the Festival to discuss her latest novel, The Best of Everything…