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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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    Edinburgh Comic Art Fair

    Meet the Indie Creatives

    Sunday 11 August 10:00 - 17:00

    Edinburgh Comic Art Fair
    Graphic novel novice or lifelong comics fan? Swing by for a vibrant and inspiring gathering of comics authors, artists and publishers at the Institut Français d’Ecosse, West Parliament Square, Edinburgh (entrance on George IV Bridge). It's the place...

    Ten at Ten

    Sunday 11 August 10:00 - 10:10

    Ten at Ten Free Tickets
    A small yet perfectly formed reading from one of our Festival authors to start your day. Check the screen in the Entrance Tent to see who's reading today.

    Sophy Henn: Super Duper Unique You

    Age 3-6

    Sunday 11 August 10:00 - 10:45

    Sophy Henn: Super Duper Unique You Buy Tickets
    Celebrate the varied and wonderful things that make each of us unique in this positive, inclusive event with highly acclaimed children’s illustrator Sophy Henn. She reads rhymes from her latest book, Super Duper You, and shows you her bright and...

    Laura Cumming & Roanna Gonsalves with Tom Pow

    Let’s Talk About Memory and Forgetting

    Sunday 11 August 10:15 - 11:15

    Laura Cumming & Roanna Gonsalves with Tom Pow Buy Tickets
    Poet Tom Pow has designated 2019 a Year of Conversation. Today he talks to two authors about conversation as both an aide-memoire and a means of helping us forget. Observer chief art critic Laura Cummings’s On Chapel Sands is an astonishing memoir of...

    Brave Vampires and Evil Penguins with Laura Ellen Anderson

    Age 7-10

    Sunday 11 August 10:30 - 11:30

    Brave Vampires and Evil Penguins with Laura Ellen Anderson Buy Tickets
    Meet the hilarious characters in author-illustrator Laura Ellen Anderson’s brilliantly imagined tales. Amelia Fang, the bravest little vampire in the kingdom, is back in a gorgeously gothic new story, Amelia Fang and the Half-Moon Holiday. Meanwhile,...

    Damian Barr

    Do brutal men father brutal men?

    Sunday 11 August 10:30 - 11:30

    Damian Barr Buy Tickets
    After the success of Maggie & Me, a bestselling memoir of growing up gay in 1980s Scotland, Damian Barr presents his hotly anticipated debut novel You Will Be Safe Here. Its interweaving narratives build around the tender depiction of Willem –...

    M A Bennett on Lord of the Flies

    Reading Workshop

    Sunday 11 August 11:00 - 12:30

    M A Bennett on Lord of the Flies Buy Tickets
    M A Bennett, author of thrilling novels for young adults, explores William Golding’s groundbreaking Lord of the Flies. Written in 1954, the novel centres on a group of boys stranded on an island. What begins as an adventure becomes a frightening...

    50 Years of The Very Hungry Caterpillar

    All Ages

    Sunday 11 August 11:00 - 16:30

    50 Years of The Very Hungry Caterpillar
    Feeling peckish? Celebrate 50 years of Eric Carle’s classic picture book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by dropping into Story Box for lots of exciting colouring and craft activities inspired by the much-loved tale. You might even get the chance to...

    Story Detectives on the Trail of a Tale

    Families & 7+

    Sunday 11 August 11:00 - 11:45

    Story Detectives on the Trail of a Tale Buy Tickets
    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...

    Join the Super Power Agency

    Families & 8+

    Sunday 11 August 11:00 - 16:30

    Join the Super Power Agency
    Hop aboard the Super Power Agency Bus and become a literacy superhero! Special agents show you how to take a book out of your head and onto the page, where it can change the world, with fun bookmaking and storytelling activities.

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