Explore the Festival programme

The Edinburgh International Book Festival takes place from 15-30 August 2026. The programme will be available in June 2026. Sign up for our ebulletins or follow us on social media to hear announcements and updates.

In the meantime, you can enjoy watching nearly 150 events from the 2025 Festival on our website. 

2024 Book Festival Highlights

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The Front List: Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Front List: Ta-Nehisi Coates

Ta-Nehisi Coates is an award-winning, uncompromising commentator on race relations, truth, and justice, especially in America. He’ll discuss the urgent need for the West, and particularly America, to free itself from the myths it tells itself…

Kirstin Innes: Who is Clio Campbell? (2020 Event)
Kirstin Innes: Who is Clio Campbell? (2020 Event)

Written from the perspective of those who loved (and hated) Clio Campbell most, and taking in everything from Top of the Pops to IndyRef along the way, Scabby Queen will have you…

Michel Faber: The ‘Evil Is In The ‘Etail (2020 Event)
Michel Faber: The ‘Evil Is In The ‘Etail (2020 Event)

Reminiscent of Charles Dickens and of Lewis Carroll, Michel Faber’s fable D is a delightful sideways look at the evils of our times. He joins us to discuss Dhikilo’s wild odyssey…

Shenandoah
Shenandoah by Frank Cottrell Boyce

Life gets interesting when a mysterious group of exchange students unexpectedly arrive at school…