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    Karl Geary & Samanta Schweblin

    Deeply Unsettling Secrets

    Wednesday 16 August 3:30pm - 4:30pm

    Karl Geary & Samanta Schweblin
    Actor, screenwriter and now debut novelist Karl Geary presents Montpelier Parade, a Dublin-set cinematic sweep of a story about a love affair, filled with longing, grief, hope and the things that remain unsaid. Secrets also pervade Man Booker...

    Big Changes with Lisa Stickley

    Age 3-6

    Wednesday 16 August 3:45pm - 4:45pm

    Big Changes with Lisa Stickley
    Edith has moved to a new house and her bedroom is scarily big. Will she be able to settle in with the help of her toys? Lisa Stickley reads from her charming book, My New Room, offers tips on how to cope with big changes, and introduces you to a variety...
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    Stefano Bonino & James Fergusson

    Two Views of Muslim Britain

    Wednesday 16 August 3:45pm - 4:45pm

    Stefano Bonino & James Fergusson
    As Britain’s Muslim population looks set to double in the next five years, what can we do to ensure that the tiny minority with extremist views shrinks still further? In Muslims in Scotland, Stefano Bonino sees Edinburgh as a successful model of...

    Vanessa Altin: Dear Diary

    Age 8-12

    Wednesday 16 August 3:45pm - 4:45pm

    Vanessa Altin: Dear Diary
    In war-torn Syria, a young Kurdish girl sits under a tree writing her diary as she listens to gunshots in the street. Follow Dilvan’s determination to find her family in Vanessa Altin’s The Pomegranate Tree, a beautiful and hopeful account of...

    Afternoon Tea with Fuchsia Dunlop

    From a China Teapot

    Wednesday 16 August 4:00pm - 5:30pm

    Afternoon Tea with Fuchsia Dunlop
    Fuchsia Dunlop developed a love of all things Chinese when she took Mandarin evening classes to help secure a job at the BBC. She is now a renowned expert in Chinese cuisine and, with Land of Fish and Rice, aims to unlock the secrets of its glorious...

    Philip Davis & Samantha Ellis

    Lost in Literature

    Wednesday 16 August 4:00pm - 5:00pm

    Philip Davis & Samantha Ellis
    Victorian literary life is revealed by two accomplished authors. Philip Davis shows how Marian Evans became George Eliot and learned to think and feel as a novelist. Davis is, says the Literary Review, ‘the searching, perceptive critic this great...

    Joseph Farrell & Lavinia Greenlaw

    Questing Lives

    Wednesday 16 August 4:30pm - 5:30pm

    Joseph Farrell & Lavinia Greenlaw
    Travel broadens the mind. Joseph Farrell, a noted translator from Italian, assesses the final years of Robert Louis Stevenson who settled in Samoa in 1890 and whose expert knowledge of the Pacific islanders turned him into a fierce critic of foreign...
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    Writing for Resilience

    Creative Writing Workshop

    Wednesday 16 August 4:30pm - 6:30pm

    Writing for Resilience Sold Out
    Why not try? Lindsey Fraser on Flour Babies Lindsey Fraser on Flour Babies Reading Workshop Sun 27 Aug 1:00pm - 2:30pm
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    Angus Roxburgh

    From Russia with Amazing Stories

    Wednesday 16 August 5:00pm - 6:00pm

    Angus Roxburgh Sold Out
    Why not try? Karl Ove Knausgaard Karl Ove Knausgaard Lexicon of Life’s Loveliness Wed 23 Aug 5:00pm - 6:00pm

    David France

    Fighting Back Against AIDS

    Wednesday 16 August 5:00pm - 6:00pm

    David France
    The fear of the early days of the AIDS epidemic is already disappearing into the fog of history. American investigative reporter David France’s How to Survive a Plague drags it right back, and dazzlingly shows how activists drove the scientific...

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