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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.
400 years on, the story of Mary, Queen of Scots, still grips our imaginations. Rosemary Goring’s Homecoming narrates the 12 years Mary spent in Scotland. In The Green Lady, Sue Lawrence spins a mystery from the lives of the women surrounding the...
Longlisted for the 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction, The Paper Palace is the debut novel of previous Senior Vice President of HBO, Miranda Cowley Heller. In a cabin on Cape Cod a woman’s life is turned upside down over 24 hours as she is forced to...
Sandro Veronesi’s international bestselling novel, The Hummingbird, is transformed into an exclusive, experimental and immersive event for the Book Festival by the team who adapted it for BBC Radio 3. Experience the impressionistic, dreamlike life of...
Those pesky bunnies are back – and this time they’ve taken to the water! Meet Bunnies on the Bus author Philip Ardagh and step onboard to discover his hilarious follow-up, Bunnies in a Boat. Uncover all the hidden stories in the book’s wonderful...
How does the United Nations use the law to hold governments to account? In The Last Colony Philippe Sands QC highlights the case of the Chagos Archipelago. In the 1960s, Britain forcibly removed the inhabitants of the island. Join Sands today in...
Alan Parks’s May God Forgive finds a Glasgow in mourning; an arson attack has left five dead and ignited a dark spark in the city. In Denzil Meyrick’s The Death of Remembrance, a constable’s choice to walk away from the site of a crime has...
Can relationships last against the backdrop of war? Danny Ramadan’s The Foghorn Echoes shows us the forbidden love of two boys in war-torn Syria. Pajtim Statovci’s Bolla takes us to 90s Kosovo, where a newly married Arsim falls in love with a...
Announcing our Communities Programme and Citizen events this August 
