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.
Facilitated by Hannah Lavery and Samuel Tongue from the Scottish Poetry Library, this creative writing workshop provides tools and techniques to help support creative writing in the classroom and beyond. There will be lots of opportunities to explore...
‘Heartbreaking stories of heroism’ set against a backdrop of ‘political cynicism and scientific ignorance'. That’s how judges described the winner of 2018's Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction – Serhii Plokhy’s Chernobyl: History of a...
With companies and governments gaining new powers to follow people online, the costs are becoming clearer. Now The New York Times is embarking on The Privacy Project for a deeper understanding of a world without personal boundaries. The New York Times...
Having transformed the high street, Mary ‘Queen of Shops’ Portas is back with a campaign calling time on macho culture in the workplace. Work Like a Woman is her call to arms for radically reshaping business culture for the benefit of both sexes,...
On the face of it, founder of record label Big Dada, Will Ashon may have written about one of hip hop’s classic albums: Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers). Yet his book, Chamber Music: About the Wu-Tang (in 36 Pieces), is about more than the...
One of Scotland’s most influential poets, Tom Leonard died last December at the age of 74. In this special premiere of his last major work, actor Tam Dean Burn produces and performs Leonard’s moving translation of Bertolt Brecht’s 1939 anti-war...
Grab a drink from the bar and settle in for some serious literary revelry. An enticing line-up of talent (revealed in The Skinny and on our website in July) plays with words, music and a lot more every night of the Festival.
While Scotland has been free of major military conflict since the 1940s, it could have been different had the Cold War escalated. In Facing the Bear, broadcaster, author and former associate editor of the Sunday Herald, Trevor Royle discusses how...
Join one of our Festival authors each morning for a magical half hour of storytelling, poetry, song or rhyme. This daily changing event is suitable for children of all ages. Appearing today: Emily Dodd.
A small yet perfectly formed reading from one of our Festival authors to start your day. Check the screen in the Entrance Tent to see who's reading today.
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