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    Kei Miller: Silence is Violence

    Saturday 14 August 16:00 - 17:00

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    Kei Miller: Silence is Violence
    A few years ago, when asked what he sees when he looks at a map, Kei Miller answered ‘I see the things that aren’t there... maps are always interesting to me for what’s left out…’. These gaps and omissions were a key part of the celebrated...
     

    Torrey Peters: Modern Families, Baby

    Saturday 14 August 17:30 - 18:30

    Torrey Peters: Modern Families, Baby
    Detransition, Baby is the fizzing debut novel from American author Torrey Peters, a modern story about motherhood, sex, relationships and chosen family. Reese is a trans woman in her 30s who desperately yearns for motherhood when Ames, her former lover...
     

    Caleb Femi: Poet of the People

    Sunday 15 August 14:30 - 15:30

    Caleb Femi: Poet of the People
    'Caleb Femi is a gift to us all from the storytelling gods,' says fellow writer Max Porter. Femi’s exuberant words and talent saw him named as the first Young People’s Laureate for London in 2016, following his 2015 win at the Roundhouse Poetry...
     

    Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé: Play the Cards You're Dealt

    Age 14+

    Sunday 15 August 17:15 - 18:15

    Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé: Play the Cards You're Dealt
    Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé is the instant New York Times and IndieBound bestselling author of Ace of Spades. Described as ‘this summer’s hottest YA debut’, the thriller will literally have you on the edge of your seat right up to the final...
     

    Caleb Azumah Nelson: Diving into Black Culture

    Monday 16 August 13:00 - 14:00

    Caleb Azumah Nelson: Diving into Black Culture
    Every so often, a novel arrives that perfectly captures the feeling of a time: of summer, of political turmoil, youth, the tentativeness of falling in love. Open Water is one such book, the debut novel from Caleb Azumah Nelson, a writer and photographer...
     

    Monique Roffey: Conjuring the Spirit of the Caribbean

    Available from 13:15 on Tuesday 17 August

    Monique Roffey: Conjuring the Spirit of the Caribbean
    The Mermaid of Black Conch is an adventurous novel set on a Caribbean island, deploying magic realism to tell very real truths about the region and its history of colonisation and slavery. We are thrilled to welcome its author to the Festival to talk...
     

    Reading Scotland: Shola von Reinhold, Frock Consciousness

    Tuesday 17 August 14:30 - 15:30

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    Reading Scotland: Shola von Reinhold, Frock Consciousness
    To read Shola von Reinhold’s novel LOTE is to be transported to a world of poetry, aestheticism, decadence and queer celebration. ‘People like to presume madness over style whenever they have the chance,’ it begins, as Reinhold takes readers on a...
     

    Sonia Faleiro & Megha Majumdar: Outrages in India

    Tuesday 17 August 19:00 - 20:00

    Changed Sonia Faleiro & Megha Majumdar: Outrages in India
    In a village in Uttar Pradesh, North India, two teenage girls go missing and are later discovered hanging from a tree. What happened and why did they die? And why on earth do the grieving women of the village form a circle round the tree trunk to...
     

    Harry Josephine Giles & Ely Percy: The Drama’s in the Dialect

    Wednesday 18 August 16:00 - 17:00

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    Harry Josephine Giles & Ely Percy: The Drama’s in the Dialect
    On a far-off space station, Astrid and Darling search for hope as they battle with a pace of progress that threatens to leave them behind. The first full-length novel to be written in Orcadian dialect in over 50 years, Deep Wheel Orcadia is described by...
     

    Carmen Maria Machado: The Language of Violence

    Wednesday 18 August 19:00 - 20:00

    Carmen Maria Machado: The Language of Violence
    'The word ‘archive’', Carmen Maria Machado tells us (by way of Derrida), 'comes from the ancient Greek ‘arkheion’: the house of the ruler.' This note is important because Machado’s In the Dreamhouse is a book about memory, about power and...

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