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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.
Author of numerous books, Vivian French is joined by award-winning illustrator Helen Kellock for a conversation about inspiring an enduring love of books, even in the most reluctant young readers. They share book ideas from picture books suitable for...
This year, we asked people across Scotland – of any age, background or ability – to submit their own stories responding to the prompt ‘On This Day’, to build a fascinating portrait of Scotland today. Every day at 17:00 different storytellers...
With her striking new novel Lapvona, Ottessa Moshfegh continues to prove herself as one of the most exciting contemporary literary fiction writers. Unbound by genre, unafraid of darkness and unparalleled in her ambition, Moshfegh transports us to a...
This interactive event around potent young adult novel When Shadows Fall, which tackles grief and mental illness, will include the opening of the Raven Treasure box, revealing some of the meaningful icons in the story. Audiences journey through the...
Philip Miller’s The Goldenacre is the second detective novel set in Edinburgh’s fine art scene – now the provenance of a masterpiece holds a clue to a string of murders. C S Robertson’s The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace McGill introduces a...
National Book Critics Circle Award winner Ada Limón joins us to present a powerful new poetry collection, The Hurting Kind. Limón charts the interconnectedness between humans and non-humans, the living and their ancestors. Her work constructs joyfully...
Mothers, Fathers and Others, the new collection from award-winning essayist Siri Hustvedt, approaches the question of parenthood through a distinctly current lens. Hustvedt confronts the myriad issues of motherhood with her signature expansiveness,...
Ted Hughes Award-winning poet Hollie McNish’s irreverent book, Slug, brings a focus on diverse topics including grief, the body and anti-masturbation pants. Joelle Taylor’s C+nto & Othered Poems won the 2021 T S Eliot Prize for its examination of...