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.
The joyful rhyming follow-up to School for Dads is here. Get your dad dancing ready as you join a big celebration of fathers everywhere in Party for Dads. Bestselling authors of George's Amazing Adventures, Adam and Charlotte Guillain get you joining in...
Medicine, murder and the macabre meet in Victorian London. A discovery in an anatomy school mortuary takes Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain on a high-stakes search for answers in E S Thomson’s Surgeon’s Hall. Jess Kidd’s Things in Jars sees...
Do you secretly find it a chore doing the reading for your book group? Come and enjoy hearing author Eleanor Updale read a selection of prose and poetry associated with this year's Festival themes, and then discuss what you have heard. The texts may...
Drop in and join storyteller Ailie Finlay and friends for fun, inclusive sensory stories and games. Expect lots of interactivity, with props to squish, shake and rattle! This sensory drop-in event has been designed for children with additional needs,...
Among our finest voices on the significance of place, Welsh writer and filmmaker Iain Sinclair health checks our relationships with buildings across the world in Living with Buildings and Walking with Ghosts. From Marseille to Mexico, inner London to...
Bestselling illustrator of I Am the Seed that Grew the Tree, Frann Preston-Gannon turns her talent for capturing natural beauty to a wonderfully inclusive picture book about a little frog who wants all the swamp animals to join in his song. Follow the...
San Francisco-based investigative journalist Yasha Levine traces the history of the internet back to its secretive origins as a tool of the US military when it sought to outwit the Vietnamese. In Surveillance Valley, Levine shows that spying wasn’t...
Tales of love and war win the 2019 James Tait Black Prizes 
