Saturday 9 August 18:45 - 19:45
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We bring together three debut novelists whose new works have grasped the attention of readers and critics alike…
Saturday 9 August 19:30 - 20:30
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Two master novelists meet today for a spellbinding conversation…
Saturday 9 August 20:00 - 21:00
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Over the spring, award-winning poet, author and playwright Ross MacKay led a series of creative writing workshops for men living with mental health conditions. Working with groups at the AK Bell Library (Perth) and Granton Library (Edinburgh) the men……
Suitable for age 6 - 9
Sunday 10 August 10:00 - 11:00
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In this event for curious and climate-conscious minds, learn why recycling is important, what happens after we recycle, and the impact this all has on our planet. There’ll be fun and games, and brilliant ideas for how we can reuse stuff to make totally…
Suitable for age 3 - 5
Sunday 10 August 10:00 - 11:00
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Hap-pea birthday to you, Supertato! There’s a party and everyone is invited to an all-singing, all-dancing event with Sue Hendra to celebrate Supertato: Happy Birthday Nitwit!…
Sunday 10 August 10:15 - 11:15
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Today we speak to Jonathan Watts, the Guardian's global environment editor, to celebrate Phillips' life and work…
Sunday 10 August 10:30 - 11:30
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When Russia launched its most recent invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Ukrainian chef Olia Hercules decided it was finally time to tell her story…
Suitable for age 3 - 5
Sunday 10 August 11:45 - 12:45
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A bear has settled in Mouse’s favourite chair, and that chair isn’t big enough for both of them to share. Come along to this hilarious event hosted by Ross Collins, author-illustrator of There’s a Bear in My Chair and find out all the ways Mouse tries to…
Sunday 10 August 11:45 - 12:45
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Jackie Wylie talks to Walter (renowned for her Oliver Award-winning stage performances, and her many screen appearances including Succession and Killing Eve) about what it's like to step into Shakespeare's shoes…
Sunday 10 August 12:00 - 13:00
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In The Burning Earth, environmental historian at Yale University and MacArthur Genius fellow Sunil Amrith creates an ambitiously complete history of the way 500 years of human development has driven environmental change and destruction…
Sunday 10 August 13:30 - 14:30
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oin author of Intimacies, Katie Kitamura, as she discusses her hotly anticipated new novel, Audition, exploring what it means to truly know our authentic self and the different roles we play to the outside world…
Sunday 10 August 14:45 - 15:45
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Booker Prize-shortlisted novelist Marina Warner joins us today to ask profound and urgent questions about the right to safety, home, freedom of movement, and peace…
Sunday 10 August 15:15 - 16:15
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Winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature for 'his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee', it's an honour to welcome Abdulrazak Gurnah to the Festival to discuss his latest novel, Theft…
Sunday 10 August 15:15 - 16:15
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Great comic novels remind us that the world is bigger and weirder than we think. Camilla Grudovajoins two modern virtuosos of this enduring form: Nell Zink and Nicola Barker…
Sunday 10 August 16:00 - 17:00
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Hear Darwish - described as one of the foremost contemporary Arab poets - discuss what it means to survive, how to avoid bring desensitised by conflict, and the incredible tenacity of the human spirit…
Sunday 10 August 16:30 - 17:30
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As the war in Ukraine continues, The Ukraine Shelf podcast brings together leading authors, scholars, and journalists for lively and informed discussions about what we should be reading to better understand Ukraine and its place in the world during this…
Sunday 10 August 16:45 - 17:45
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The theme for this year's Festival is Repair, and in a world seeking restoration, Poppy Okotcha and Kathy Slack offer a path towardshealing through the garden…
Sunday 10 August 17:00 - 18:00
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Come along for a compelling discussion between two incisive minds on the complex power dynamics in our rapidly changing world…
Sunday 10 August 17:00 - 18:00
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Yiyun Li is one of our most important authors, whose life has been touched by unthinkable tragedy. In this impactful conversation she'll reflect on finding words to say the difficult things, how grief transforms time, and the power of the verb 'to be'…
Sunday 10 August 17:45 - 18:45
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Around the world, a growing movement seeks to protect rivers by declaring them living beings entitled to fundamental rights. This vital, perspective-shifting panel - a cornerstone of our Repair theme - is chaired by Guardian environmental editor…
Full 2025 Book Festival programme is announced with key theme of Repair 
