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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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Should Rivers Be Afforded Personhood?

Should Rivers Be Afforded Personhood?

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, Jonathan Watts…

Andrew O'Hagan: Heydays in the Haçienda (2020 Event)
Andrew O'Hagan: Heydays in the Haçienda (2020 Event)

The fine grain of working-class teenagers’s lives; the blether, the binge-drinking and nights on the pull: Mayflies sees Andrew O’Hagan in scintillating, heartbreakingly good form…

Lola Olufemi & Minna Salami: Critical Reflections on Feminism (2020 Event)
Lola Olufemi & Minna Salami: Critical Reflections on Feminism (2020 Event)

Since 2010, the award-winning blog MsAfropolitan has connected feminism with critical reflections on contemporary culture from an Africa-centred perspective. Its founder is…

Freedom of Speech is not Freedom from Consequence
Freedom of Speech is not Freedom from Consequence by Juno Dawson

‘It’s not transphobic to have concerns about transgender people,’ say various users of Mumsnet, outwardly liberal columnists, some politicians, and certain bigots who attempt to slide a wedge between trans women and feminism…