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.
Drop in and join students from the Edinburgh College of Art to create a very special 'explosion' book that can be turned into your passport to anywhere in the universe. Then make your own rocket so that you can boldly go where no human has gone before.
An event celebrating two feminist treasuries packed with inspirational Scottish and Irish women. With Warriors and Witches and Damn Rebel Bitches, Mairi Kidd has curated a stunning collection of Scottish women throughout history, from Mary Queen of...
Victorian story detectives Mr Titus Wellpeckit and Dr Symington Smythe peek behind the drapes of Charlotte Square and George Street residences to discover the weird and wonderful tales hidden within. Who were the New Town characters that walked these...
The recent history of Corbyn’s Labour Party shows that antisemitism remains a problem for British society. But headlines brought more confusion than clarity in debates about definition. Westminster peer and West London Synagogue’s Senior Rabbi Julia...
Become an expert tracker and poo-identifier with handy field guide to droppings, tracks and traces, The Clue is in the Poo. Fact-filled funnyman Andy Seed won the 2015 Blue Peter Best Book with Facts Award and has now turned his attention to the natural...
Following the success of last year’s improvised event, favourite Festival storyteller Vivian French returns with illustrator Petr Horáček to craft a new story based on your ideas. Suggest exciting plot points to Vivian and guide Petr’s drawing...
Three authors for young adults come together for a lively conversation about verse novels, their growing popularity and how to tell diverse, dynamic stories. Kwame Alexander and Jason Reynolds are CILIP Carnegie Medal-shortlisted authors and Sarah...
She Wolf is a startlingly original tale centering on an epic action heroine. Determined to avenge her mother’s death, young Viking girl Ylva tracks her killer north across the hinterland. But has she become too hardened by cruel fate to recognise...
With an ageing global population, the question of how to live long and well has never been more pertinent. In Borrowed Time, science writer Sue Armstrong harnesses the latest research to ask how and why we age. In Breakfast with the Centenarians,...
Marjorie Lotfi Gill and Claire Urquhart from Open Book, a charity which organises shared reading groups, explore Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus, winner of the 1984 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. At the novel’s centre is Sophie, supposedly a...
2019 Programme Launched: We Need New Stories 
