Thursday 14 August 12:00 - 13:00
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Reading, reminiscing, planning, daydreaming - none of these activities is possible without the imagination. But how do our imaginations work? And how do our experiences differ?…
Thursday 14 August 12:00 - 13:00
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The beautiful Scottish Isles are remote, picturesque and the perfect backdrop for a murder mystery…
Thursday 14 August 12:15 - 13:15
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Edinburgh and the literary tradition go together hand-in-glove, and with Edinburgh: The Autobiography, writer and editor Alan Taylor draws together the story of our 900-year-old capital as told by those who have written about it - writers including…
Thursday 14 August 12:45 - 13:45
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The inimitable Julian Clary is a bona fide British national treasure - an actor, comedian, presenter, and writer for adults and kids, he can truly do it all. Today he joins us with his latest mystery romp, Curtain Call to Murder, set during a show at the…
Thursday 14 August 13:15 - 14:15
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Anishinaabe writer Tanya Talaga's The Knowing is a riveting exploration of her family's story, and a retelling of the country we now call Canada…
Thursday 14 August 13:30 - 14:30
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In this special event celebrating the launch of her warm and revealing new memoir, Frankly, Sturgeon pulls back the curtain on her personal evolution from a shy working-class child to one of Scotland’s most significant political leaders…
Thursday 14 August 13:45 - 14:45
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As an author, journalist, and former PEN America president, Peter Godwin has faced conflict with courage throughout his 30-year career. Winning the Orwell Prize with his debut title, Mukiwa, his fourth book, Exit Wounds, sees Godwin face a more personal…
Thursday 14 August 14:00 - 15:00
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Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year, Harriet Baker, and Baillie Gifford Prize-winning Philip Hoare are paired for an extraordinary discussion delving intimately into creative influences…
Thursday 14 August 14:15 - 15:15
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When celebrated Swedish author Johanna Ekström learned she was dying of cancer, she asked her friend Sigrid Rausing to distil 13 handwritten notebooks into one final published work. The result, And the Walls Became the World All Around, is a sublime…
Thursday 14 August 15:00 - 16:00
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What do the physical memorials of the past and how they are remembered tell us about the ongoing conflicts of today?…
Thursday 14 August 15:00 - 16:00
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Scottish Book of the Year-winner Ewan Morrison brings his latest high concept techno-thriller to this year’s Festival…
Thursday 14 August 15:30 - 16:30
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Inspired by Cornwall’s Lost Gardens of Heligan – an ambitious restoration project which reawakened a landscape of woods and meadows to offer a fertile realm for all sorts of creatures – Dwell, by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, is a beautifully illustrated…
Thursday 14 August 15:45 - 16:45
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A timer, a toaster, a squirrel, a toenail – the reviews all agree: after reading Lara Pawson’s electrifying Goldsmith’s Prize-shortlisted Spent Light, you’ll never look at ordinary objects the same way again…
Thursday 14 August 16:00 - 17:00
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Judy Murray needs no introduction: former tennis professional and coach, and of course mother of Those Tennis Brothers, she’s an icon of the game. Latterly, she’s become a figurehead for women in sport and has also subjected herself to the rigours of…
Thursday 14 August 16:45 - 17:45
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What’s the true value of a human life? Journalist and documentary maker Jenny Kleeman’s The Price of Life delves into the ethical and economic complexities of this profound question…
Thursday 14 August 17:00 - 18:00
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Deemed ‘crime-writing royalty’ by Ian Rankin, bestselling author Denise Mina returns to the Festival with her 20th novel, The Good Liar…
Thursday 14 August 17:30 - 18:30
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Two razor-sharp debut novelists talk with Sasha de Buyl about the fitful, lurching paths we take on the coming-of-age journey…
Thursday 14 August 17:45 - 18:45
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Writer-researcher Kevin Guyan and human rights lawyer Keio Yoshida both grapple with the complex realities – the challenges and triumphs – of queer existence in contemporary society…
Thursday 14 August 18:00 - 19:00
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There She Goes is a special new anthology of travel writing, bringing together 17 women writers of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction to give life to the landscapes they travel through…
Thursday 14 August 18:15 - 19:15
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Power connects the new heart-pounding dark fantasy thrillers from Alwyn Hamilton and S F Williamson…
Full 2025 Book Festival programme is announced with key theme of Repair 
