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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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Steve Crawshaw & Philippe Sands: Prosecuting the Powerful

Steve Crawshaw & Philippe Sands: Prosecuting the Powerful

Is justice possible when war crimes have been committed? Should retribution, reconciliation, or something else be the goal? Two leading authors discuss this tense subject from their own experience…

Marian Keyes: Family Matters (2020 Event)
Marian Keyes: Family Matters (2020 Event)

Marian Keyes didn’t start writing until her twenties, she felt that she was ‘all washed up at 30.’ But readers have had a love affair with Keyes that has lasted over two decades…

Paul Mendez & Derek Owusu: Thorny Intersections (2020 Event)
Paul Mendez & Derek Owusu: Thorny Intersections (2020 Event)

How do you get the upper hand on a world you don’t yet understand? That’s the burning question at the heart of two striking debuts that scrape away the coming-of-age clichés…

Take Route Six to the Ocean
Take Route Six to the Ocean by Amy Bloom

Provincetown is a small town on a sand-bar in Massachusetts. On one side is the harbor, on the other side the dunes and the ocean…