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    Mariana Enríquez: Argentina's Ghoulish Underbelly

    Saturday 14 August 19:15 - 20:15

    Mariana Enríquez: Argentina's Ghoulish Underbelly
    There is a new generation of Latin American women whose stylish, gothic writing is finding enthusiastic readers all over the world. Alongside Chile’s Lina Meruane and Mexico’s Valeria Luiselli, Argentina has produced a cornucopia of talents...
     

    Robin Robertson & Tim Robertson: Spirits of Scotland

    Monday 16 August 14:30 - 15:30

    Robin Robertson & Tim Robertson: Spirits of Scotland
    Haunting, elemental and deeply charged, Robin Robertson’s writing evokes the mythology of landscapes and people, whether in Scotland or elsewhere. Most of his work takes the form of shorter poems and a new book, Grimoire, brings together some of...
     

    Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor: Across the Indian Ocean

    Monday 16 August 19:15 - 20:15

    Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor: Across the Indian Ocean
    ‘In this dazzling novel you will find the entirety of human experience – tearshed, bloodshed, lust, love – in staggering proportions.’ So said Taiye Selasi about Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s debut novel Dust in 2015 – a book that heralded the...
     

    Jed Mercurio & Prasanna Puwanarajah: The Bionic Policeman

    Monday 16 August 20:30 - 21:30

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    Jed Mercurio & Prasanna Puwanarajah: The Bionic Policeman
    If you were one of the millions of people captivated by hit TV police thriller Line of Duty, the name of its creator and screenwriter Jed Mercurio will be very familiar. Now Mercurio has teamed up with actor, writer and director Prasanna Puwanarajah and...
     

    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...
     

    Salena Godden: Bringing Death to Life

    Tuesday 17 August 16:00 - 17:00

    Salena Godden: Bringing Death to Life
    What if Death was not a faceless skeleton with a cloak and a scythe, but a working-class Black woman who shapeshifts and who has spent the whole of eternity doing her work unseen? Worn out and exhausted, Death wishes to unburden herself of the stories...
     

    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...
     

    Alice Blackwell & Barbara Henderson: Artifacts and Fiction

    Age 8+

    Thursday 19 August 10:15 - 11:00

    Alice Blackwell & Barbara Henderson: Artifacts and Fiction
    Be catapulted back in time to the Viking Age with this thrilling new historical adventure story from one of Scotland’s finest children’s authors, Barbara Henderson. In The Chessmen Thief we meet 12 year old Kylan, a Viking slave who helped carve the...
     

    Scottish BAME Writers Network: Afrofuturism - Present Realities, Possible Futures

    Saturday 21 August 13:00 - 14:00

    Scottish BAME Writers Network: Afrofuturism - Present Realities, Possible Futures
    How can Afrofuturism help the African diaspora in Scotland engender a better future for today? Afrofuturism is a cultural aesthetic that combines science-fiction, history and fantasy to reimagine the history of the African diaspora, while invoking...
     

    Pat Barker: The Women of Troy

    Saturday 21 August 16:00 - 17:00

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    Pat Barker: The Women of Troy
    Ever since winning the Booker Prize in 1995 for the third book in her Regeneration Trilogy, Pat Barker has demonstrated an uncanny ability to describe the psychology of individuals during times of conflict. In 2019 Barker published The Silence of the...

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