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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.

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    Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi & Geovani Martins

    Migrants and Misfits

    Sunday 25 August 17:00 - 18:00

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    Manchester-based Ugandan author Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi and Brazilian writer Geovani Martins live half a globe apart, but their searing short story collections both centre on being an outsider. Makumbi’s Manchester Happened features moving stories...

    Amnesty International Imprisoned Writers Series

    Extraordinary Injustice

    Sunday 25 August 17:30 - 18:15

    Amnesty International Imprisoned Writers Series
    Amnesty International has long sought answers about the use of UK and Scottish airports for the purposes of ‘extraordinary rendition’. The selected writing today includes testimony from people who have experienced the trauma of rendition and...

    Adélaïde Bon & Rhik Samadder

    Testimonies of Survival

    Sunday 25 August 17:45 - 18:45

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    Two authors come together to share their tales of survival. French writer and actress Adélaïde Bon's The Little Girl on the Ice Floe is a courageous account of childhood rape, and a vital addition to the #MeToo movement. She is joined by British actor...

    Sylvia V Linsteadt: Enter the Wild Folk Wilderness

    Age 10-14

    Sunday 25 August 18:00 - 19:00

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    Enter the magical world of Farallone, a place inspired by the plants and animals of author Sylvia V Linsteadt’s woodland home. The Wild Folk Rising, the latest tale in Sylvia’s Stargold Chronicles, is an epic fantasy quest rooted in folklore and...
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    Edoardo Albinati & Alessandro D'Avenia

    Which Way I Fly is Hell

    Sunday 25 August 18:30 - 19:30

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    Meet two cutting-edge novelists exploring different sections of Italian society. In Edoardo Albinati’s prize-winning The Catholic School, a shocking act of sexual violence by former students of a prestigious Rome boys' school reveals the powers behind...

    George Alagiah

    A Burning Ambition

    Sunday 25 August 18:45 - 19:45

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    Join popular BBC broadcaster George Alagiah as he takes off his reporting hat and plunges into a new career as political thriller writer, drawing on his knowledge and experience of working in Africa. The Burning Land sees South Africa torn apart by...

    Emma John

    Feeling Southern Charms

    Sunday 25 August 18:45 - 19:45

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    The first woman to win a Sports Journalism Award, Emma John has recently been taking more of an interest in the American South, and in particular bluegrass music. In Wayfaring Stranger, she writes of her initial struggle to adapt to the deep country...

    Patrick Flanery & Adam Foulds

    Life on the Brink

    Sunday 25 August 19:00 - 20:00

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    Two Book Festival favourites make a welcome return. Patrick Flanery presents Night For Day, a McCarthy-era tale of Hollywood friends facing the blacklist before they can complete their noir retelling of the Orpheus myth. Adam Foulds, one of Granta’s...
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    Radical Practice: The Fifth Social Revolution

    New Models for Change

    Sunday 25 August 19:30 - 20:45

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    There has been a pattern of industrial revolutions leading to seismic social change. Last century saw an oil-based revolution bring us state welfare systems, which transformed lives but now face new challenges. Today, radical practitioners from Scotland...

    Joanna Kavenna & Alan Trotter

    Fake News and Fever Dreams

    Sunday 25 August 20:30 - 21:30

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    Fizzing new fiction sheds fresh light on worlds we thought we knew. Joanna Kavenna has been described as ‘a true literary insurgent’. Her new novel Zed dives into the dark web of connections between tech giants and governments. Edinburgh-based Alan...

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