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Hundreds of events for adults, teenagers and children feature authors, illustrators, musicians, poets, policians, thinkers, prize-winners and rising stars every August.
Denise Mina grows more fascinating with every book she brings out. The first book in the Anna and Fin series was named a joint winner of the McIlvanny Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year 2019. Now, Confidence brings us another meta-story starring...
Like Ali Smith, Lydia Davis and José Saramago, Chilean writer Alejandro Zambra makes work that’s both thoughtful and profoundly insightful. His latest novel, Chilean Poet, is set in a country that boasts two Nobel Prize-winning poets: Pablo Neruda...
On sun-soaked Corfu, fixer McIntyre thinks he’s got an easy job ahead of him – but he quickly finds that things are a lot shadier than they seem. Described as a ‘perfect read’ by the Guardian, Charlie Higson’s new novel, Whatever Gets You...
Described by Kathryn Schulz as ‘one of our greatest critics’, Geoff Dyer is a master of observation – and admirably unpredictable. He discusses The Last Days of Roger Federer, a meditation on how it feels when an ending is in sight. In a...
Prominent author and academic Amitava Kumar grew up in Patna, a town in India known for crookedness in high places. In A Time Outside This Time, he explores a writer’s quest to separate truth from lies in the era of Trump’s presidency, the...
Emerging from the same BBC Radio production that launched the careers of Chris Morris, Stewart Lee and Steve Coogan, Armando Iannucci has been at the forefront of British satire for over two decades. In Pandemonium he turns his eye to the pandemic and...
Each day, a Festival author shares an unexpected inspiration or passion. Join them to crack open the curiosity cabinet, revealing the stories behind their books or side projects.