Saturday 12 August 17:00 - 18:00
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If you have been on a train, a plane, or a bus ride in the last year, you have undoubtedly looked up to see someone reading Lessons in Chemistry: the incredibly popular debut novel from Bonnie Garmus. Garmus joins Sam Baker to discuss the novel, its...
Saturday 12 August 17:15 - 18:15
In her latest novel, Now She is Witch, Scottish writer, poet, and performer Kirsty Logan grapples with what power and freedom can mean in a patriarchal world. In Strega, Swedish author Johanne Lykke Holm explores the potency and violence of age-long...
Saturday 12 August 20:30 - 21:30
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We are delighted to welcome Claudia Rankine, author of the ground-breaking American Lyric trilogy, to discuss the Penguin Modern Classics reissue of her daring 2001 masterpiece, Plot. A standout work in Rankine’s stellar career, Plot is an engrossing...
Sunday 13 August 13:30 - 14:30
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A rare opportunity to witness two of the most lauded and celebrated North American poets of recent years in conversation. With careers spanning several decades, Dionne Brand and Claudia Rankine discuss their writing to date, and how they have used the...
Sunday 13 August 13:45 - 14:45
From quiet quitting to strike action, work has occupied recent news headlines. Exploring the anxiety, intimacy, and strangeness of the workplace, Camilla Grudova’s Children of Paradise is set at an independent cinema which rebels against being...
Sunday 13 August 16:00 - 17:30
Northern Irish writer Maria Fusco, British-American artist filmmaker Margaret Salmon, and composer Annea Lockwood have collaborated on History of the Present, a hybrid opera that will be performed live at Edinburgh Art Festival. In the first of our...
Monday 14 August 14:15 - 15:15
Kim Sherwood was described by Hilary Mantel as 'a writer of capacity, potency and sophistication'. A Wild & True Relation, is a remake of the 18th century heroic novel. Molly, an orphan on board a ship who's disguised as a boy, grows up to outshine the...
Monday 14 August 14:15 - 15:45
Take a deep dive into Saidiya Hartman's Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments with writer and Fringe of Colour founder Jess Brough. Join for an illuminating discussion of Hartman’s expert scholarship around life for Black women in the wake of...
Tuesday 15 August 12:00 - 13:00
With the irresistible International Booker Prize-shortlisted The Employees, Danish novelist Olga Ravn proved she can take an everyday experience – working – and reframe it as something quietly revolutionary. Now she returns with My Work, a funny and...
Wednesday 16 August 10:15 - 11:15
Celebrated poet, writer, academic, and translator, Iman Mersal was born in the northern Egyptian Delta before emigrating to Canada. Mersal shares a wide-ranging exploration of the life of revered Egyptian writer, Enayat Al Zayyat, who died by suicide...
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