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- Events on Sat 13 Aug
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- 10:00 - Rob Biddulph: #DrawWithRob Live
- 10:15 - Joseph Coelho & Fiona Lumbers: Groovy Moves with Luna
- 10:30 - Henry Marsh: Of Life and Death
- 11:30 - Michael Morpurgo: The Carnival King of the Creatures
- 12:15 - Nona Fernández: Imagination Meets Evil
- 13:00 - Jonathan Freedland: The Man Who Escaped Auschwitz
- 13:30 - Nick Drnaso: Drawing Inspiration
- 14:15 - Travis Alabanza: Life Beyond the Binary
- 14:30 - Mohsin Hamid: What Does it Mean to Be White?
- 16:00 - Fintan O'Toole: The Unknown Knowns of Ireland
- 16:15 - Georgia Pritchett: Thriving With Anxiety
- 16:30 - Katherine Angel & Amia Srinivasan: The Politics of Sex and Women’s Desire
- 17:30 - Ali Smith with Val McDermid: Hello!
- 18:15 - Jazz Money & Andrés N Ordorica: The Language of Protest and Love
- 19:00 - Abi Morgan: For Love Nor Pity
- 19:30 - Nihal Arthanayake: A Little More Conversation
- 20:15 - Adam Tooze with Allan Little: When the Markets Caught Covid
- 20:30 - Martha Wainwright: Failure, Fame and Family
- Events on Sun 14 Aug
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- 10:00 - Chasing the Edinburgh Sirens with Elle McNicoll
- 10:15 - Do You Dare Ask the Dragon? with Lemn Sissay
- 10:30 - Simon Jenkins: Who Exactly Are the Celts?
- 12:15 - Daniel Hahn: The Translator’s Craft and Graft
- 13:00 - Sarah Smith: Hear No Evil
- 13:30 - Merve Emre & Daniel Mulhall: Mrs Dalloway Meets Buck Mulligan
- 14:15 - Claire Askew & Salena Godden: Life and Death
- 14:30 - Marvellous Medicine with Adam Kay & Henry Paker
- 15:45 - Meg Mason: Femme Fatalistic
- 16:15 - Sequoia Nagamatsu, Courttia Newland & Alex Pheby: Resistance is Future
- 16:30 - Kalynn Bayron & Renée Watson: YA Superstars from Across the Pond
- 17:00 - Malika Booker, Kayo Chingonyi, Salena Godden & Lemn Sissay: The Fire This Time
- 18:15 - Osman Yousefzada: Growing Up Between Different Worlds
- 19:00 - Pankaj Mishra: The Personal is Always Political
- 19:30 - Patricia Lockwood: Postmodernism for the Internet Generation
- 20:15 - Margo Jefferson: The Art of Self-Construction
- Events on Mon 15 Aug
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- 10:00 - James Buchan & Alex Preston: Literary Time Travel
- 10:15 - Rupert Thomson: Homage to Catalonia
- 10:30 - John Hegley: From A to Zebra, Zombie and Zoom!
- 11:30 - Janey Godley: Secrets in 70s Glasgow
- 12:15 - Yascha Mounk: Is Liberal Democracy in Crisis?
- 13:00 - Howard Jacobson: A Manchester Mother's Boy
- 14:15 - Jo Browning Wroe & Daniel Wiles: Tragedy on an Industrial Scale
- 14:30 - Frank Dikötter: Rise of a Superpower
- 16:00 - Justin Webb: Radio Saved My Life
- 16:15 - Sarah Moss: What Did Lockdown Do to Us?
- 16:30 - Amy Bloom: Till Death Us Do Part
- 17:30 - Louise Welsh with Nicola Sturgeon: Writing Glasgow, 20 Years On
- 18:15 - Domenico Starnone: Trust Translated
- 19:00 - Patrick Radden Keefe: Money is a Drug
- 20:15 - NoViolet Bulawayo: Glory and the Goat
- 20:30 - William Dalrymple: The Privatised Imperialists
- Events on Tue 16 Aug
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- 10:00 - Sarah Hall: Art, Sex and Disaster
- 10:15 - Hannah Kent & Jess Kidd: Unbreakable Bonds
- 10:30 - Yvette Fielding: Who You Gonna Call? Ghosthunters!
- 11:30 - Alexander McCall Smith: A Writer for Good
- 12:15 - Mieko Kawakami: Women’s Lives in Japan
- 13:00 - Raja Shehadeh: To Absent Fathers
- 13:30 - Nadifa Mohamed: For Whom is Justice Served?
- 14:15 - Jessica Gaitán Johannesson & Amanda Thomson: Climate Change is Personal and Political
- 16:00 - James Runcie: The Story of Bach's Masterpiece
- 16:15 - Anna Fleming & Helen Mort: A Personal Mountain to Climb
- 18:15 - Deesha Philyaw: Between Herself and God
- 19:00 - Damon Galgut: South Africa’s Broken Promise
- 19:30 - Marlon James: A Fantastical Star
- 20:15 - Iain MacGregor: Stalingrad Revisited
- 20:30 - Serhii Plokhy with Allan Little: Ukraine at the Crossroads of Europe and Russia
- Events on Wed 17 Aug
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- 10:00 - Murray Pittock: Old Scotia's Grandeur Springs
- 10:15 - Sunjeev Sahota: Behind the Veil
- 10:30 - Adam Farrer & Jon Ransom: Washed Up on the East Coast
- 11:30 - Cal Flyn, Matthew Green & Judith Schalansky: Abandoning All but Hope
- 12:15 - Kirsty Bell: If Berlin Walls Could Talk
- 13:00 - David Hendy: 100 Years of the BBC
- 13:30 - Patrick Barkham & Ed Yong: The Secret Lives of Animals
- 14:15 - Nancy Campbell & Siri Helle: Home Sweet Home
- 14:30 - Monica Ali: The Ties That Bind
- 16:00 - Vashti Bunyan: A Wayward Life of Music
- 16:15 - Vanessa Onwuemezi: Landscapes on the Edge
- 16:30 - Sam Knight: Chronicle of a Death Foretold
- 17:30 - Kevin Bridges: Is There Such Thing as Escape?
- 18:15 - Lizzy Stewart: The Female Gaze
- 19:00 - Raven Smith: On the Magnetism of Masculinity
- 19:30 - John Kay: The Cost of Change
- 20:15 - Helen Garner: The Worth of Paying Attention
- 20:30 - Frankie Boyle: Post-Referendum Thrills
- Events on Thu 18 Aug
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- 10:00 - Kate Molleson: Rewriting the Musical Canon
- 10:15 - Simon Mawer: Who Do You Think You Are?
- 10:30 - Patrick Gale: The Word That Speaks the Man
- 11:30 - Devi Sridhar: How to Prevent (Another) Pandemic
- 12:15 - Esa Aldegheri: The Freedom Drive
- 13:00 - Christopher de Bellaigue: A Life That Changed History
- 13:30 - David George Haskell: The Call of the Wild
- 14:15 - Sidarta Ribeiro: Why Do We Dream?
- 14:30 - Simon Woolley: Shaking Up the Establishment
- 16:00 - Jenni Fagan: 'Geillis Duncan Has a Broomstick'
- 16:15 - Scholastique Mukasonga: Mother Courage
- 16:30 - Audrey Magee: Still Waters Run Deep
- 17:30 - Ricky Ross: Deacon Blue And Me
- 18:15 - Mariana Enriquez: Supernatural Terrors and Real-Life Monsters
- 19:00 - Julian Barnes: Think for Yourself
- 19:30 - Chris Brookmyre: One Island, Seven Secrets
- 20:15 - Jennifer Croft: Finding the Words
- 20:30 - Jarvis Cocker: Glory Days
- Events on Fri 19 Aug
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- 10:00 - Rosie Andrews & Francesca May: Seasons of the Witch
- 10:15 - Jakuta Alikavazovic with Allan Little: Lives Shaped by War
- 10:30 - Georgi Gospodinov: Time is Out to Get Us
- 11:30 - Clive Stafford Smith with Frankie Boyle: Eternal Clouds of the Troubled Mind
- 12:15 - Raymond Antrobus: Drawing Meaning From the Spaces
- 13:00 - Graeme Macrae Burnet: In GMB We Trust
- 13:30 - Preti Taneja: Shattered Trust
- 14:15 - Joy Williams: Post-apocalyptic Rage and Revenge
- 14:30 - Laura Bates & Winnie M Li: Misogyny Laid Bare
- 16:00 - Mary Gaitskill: Shades of Grey
- 16:15 - Wendy Erskine: Stories of Belfast
- 16:30 - Leave the Land of the Living with Melinda Salisbury & V E Schwab
- 17:30 - Denise Mina: Meta-Crime for the Internet Age
- 18:15 - Alejandro Zambra: The Family of Poetry
- 19:00 - Charlie Higson: Glamour, Gangs and Greek Islands
- 19:30 - Geoff Dyer: The Sense of an Ending
- 20:15 - Amitava Kumar: Meaning in a Post-Truth World
- 20:30 - Armando Iannucci: An Epic Poem for Our Times
- Events on Sat 20 Aug
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- 10:15 - Marc David Baer: The World Was Theirs
- 10:30 - Rocket’s Adventures with Dapo Adeola & Nathan Bryon
- 11:30 - Karl Ove Knausgaard: The Familiar Made Strange
- 12:15 - Katie Tsang & Kevin Tsang: Human vs Dragon
- 13:30 - Alex Hyde & Claire Keegan: All Things Great and Small
- 14:15 - Jasmine Richards & Louie Stowell: Loki-motion
- 14:30 - Richard Holloway with Alison Watt: This One’s From the Heart
- 16:00 - Jen Campbell, Bryony Gordon & Ella McLeod: Revisiting Rapunzel
- 16:15 - The 2022 International Booker Prize Winners: Meet the Author and Translator
- 16:30 - Emily St John Mandel: Parallel Worlds and Artistic Possibilities
- 17:30 - Kathleen Jamie & Don Paterson: Memories and Meltwater
- 18:15 - Ferren Gipson & Katy Hessel: Reclaiming Art History
- 19:00 - Michael Ignatieff: Consolation for Our Times
- 19:30 - Abdulrazak Gurnah: Migration, the Story of Our Times
- 20:15 - PJ Harvey: A Song for Ira-Abel
- 20:15 - Alexander MacLeod: Private Lives
- Events on Sun 21 Aug
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- 10:00 - Itchy Coo’s Big Birthday Hoolie!
- 10:15 - Ali Millar: Waiting for Armageddon
- 10:30 - The Missing Piece with Jordan Stephens & Beth Suzanna
- 12:15 - Robert Crawford & Matthew Hollis: Poem of the Century
- 13:00 - Chitra Ramaswamy: Homelands
- 13:30 - Gulbahar Haitiwaji: To Make Us Slowly Disappear
- 14:15 - Mya-Rose Craig: Birdgirl’s Journey
- 14:30 - Humza Arshad & Jason Reynolds: Little Badman vs Stuntman
- 14:45 - Steve Brusatte & Thomas Halliday: The Paleo-Adventurers
- 16:15 - Fiona Erskine, Alex Gray & Helen Sedgwick: Secrets and Lies
- 16:30 - N K Jemisin: Ancient Evil on the Streets of New York
- 17:00 - Alan Cumming: Unpacking a Life
- 18:15 - Ayanna Lloyd Banwo & Okwiri Oduor: The New Magical Realism
- 19:30 - Alistair Moffat: A Tale of Zero Hour
- 20:15 - Mark Billingham: Everything to Lose
- Events on Mon 22 Aug
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- 10:00 - Challenging Discrimination with Patrice Lawrence & Jason Reynolds
- 10:15 - Charles Clover & Laline Paull: Secrets of the Ocean
- 11:15 - Discover your Power with Nikita Gill
- 11:30 - Joanne Harris & Margie Orford: Women in a Man’s World
- 12:15 - Zain E Asher: Tough Love
- 13:00 - Simon Parkin: A Prison of Luminaries
- 14:00 - Dugie the Dinosaur: An Interactive Sensory Event for People with Learning Disabilities
- 14:15 - Fiona Paterson, Alan Riach & James Robertson: Hugh MacDiarmid Centenary
- 14:30 - Kerry Brown, Sam Fowles & David Loyn: Does Power Inevitably Corrupt?
- 16:00 - Omar Robert Hamilton, Sanaa Seif & Ahdaf Soueif: A Decade of Resistance
- 16:15 - Marcel Theroux: Heroes and Monsters
- 17:00 - Jessie Burton: Return to the Doll’s House
- 17:30 - Anthony Horowitz: Shaken, Not Stirred
- 18:15 - Kathryn Schulz: Love Lost and Found
- 19:00 - Amy Liptrot: Traffic Islands are for Lovers
- 20:00 - Torrey Peters: The Remaking of the Family
- 20:30 - Ian Rankin: Here’s to Absent and Imaginary Friends
- Events on Tue 23 Aug
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- 10:00 - Mystery on the Tracks with MG Leonard & Sam Sedgman
- 10:15 - Katherine Rundell: I Am a Little World
- 11:15 - Young and in Love with Dean Atta
- 11:30 - Jeffrey Boakye, Sinéad Gleeson & Bob Stanley: The Many Voices of Music
- 12:15 - Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Xiaolu Guo & Eric Ngalle Charles: In a Time of Mass Migration
- 13:00 - Thomas Harding & Kojo Koram: What Was Taken?
- 14:00 - Karen Campbell & Charlie Roy: Things We Don’t Remember, Things We Can’t Forget
- 14:15 - Will Ashon & Will Buckingham: Only Connect
- 14:30 - Diana Gabaldon: The Outlander Phenomenon
- 16:00 - Tessa Hadley & Charlotte Mendelson: The Process of Revealing
- 16:15 - Elif Batuman: The Consolations of Philosophy
- 17:00 - Ottessa Moshfegh: Power, Cruelty and Savage Faith
- 17:30 - Ada Limón: The Images of Poetry
- 18:15 - Siri Hustvedt: What Makes a Mother?
- 19:00 - Hollie McNish & Joelle Taylor: Taboo-Busting Poets at Work
- 20:00 - Jeffrey Boakye, Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff & Marcus Ryder: A Celebration of Black Lives
- 20:15 - Imogen Binnie: The Great American Road Trip Reimagined
- Events on Wed 24 Aug
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- 10:00 - Izzy Investigates with Pamela Butchart
- 10:15 - Arinze Ifeakandu with Colm Tóibín: Love Under Seige
- 11:15 - Unleash your Creativity with Sita Brahmachari & Natalie Sirett
- 11:30 - Tina Brown: Stories that Sell Palace Papers
- 12:15 - Paul Dalla Rosa & Gurnaik Johal: Little Epiphanies
- 13:00 - Norman Scott: The Establishment (Almost) Always Wins
- 14:00 - Tobias Kelly & Charlotte McDonald-Gibson: Radical Outsiders
- 14:15 - Sheila Heti: Living in the First Draft
- 14:30 - Jeffrey Boakye, Stewart Lansley & Jack Monroe: Where Do We Go From Here?
- 16:00 - Matthieu Aikins, Sally Hayden & Polly Pallister-Wilkins: Bordering on Inhumane
- 16:15 - Isabel Waidner: Matadors, Spaceships and Queer Liberation
- 17:30 - Celebrating the Shortlists of the James Tait Black Prizes
- 17:30 - Antony Beevor with Allan Little: The Epic Story of Russia’s Revolution
- 18:15 - Abir Mukherjee: Raj-Era Mysteries and Political Fallout
- 19:00 - Michael Pedersen: Boy Friends Forever
- 20:00 - Imogen Binnie, Torrey Peters & Shola von Reinhold: A Golden Age for Trans Fiction?
- 20:15 - Sinéad Gleeson & Ottessa Moshfegh: A Woman's Music is Never Done
- 20:30 - Colm Tóibín: Man Imagines Mann
- Events on Thu 25 Aug
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- 10:00 - Strictly Come Writing with Maisie Chan
- 10:15 - Ghillie Başan & Mo Wilde: We Hae Meat
- 11:30 - Liz Lochhead: 50 Years of a Pioneering Poet
- 12:15 - Kavita Bhanot & Jeremy Tiang: Fifty Words for Snow
- 13:00 - James Birch: Six Degrees of Francis Bacon
- 14:15 - Lucie Elven & Irene Solà: High Drama at Literary Summit
- 14:30 - Jack Monroe: On Self-Care and Social Change
- 16:00 - Gwen Adshead & Angela Gallop: What’s Behind a Crime?
- 16:15 - Ashley Hickson-Lovence & Benjamin Markovits: Staying Ahead of the Game
- 17:30 - Oliver Bullough with Ian Rankin: How Britain Got Addicted to Dirty Money
- 18:15 - Jennifer Egan: A Sugar-Coated Future?
- 20:00 - Gideon Rachman, Andrew Wilson & Lea Ypi: Follow the Leader
- 20:15 - Namwali Serpell: Familiar Mysteries
- 20:30 - Val McDermid with Allan Little: A Woman’s a Woman, for a’ That
- 17:30 - YA Book Prize Award Ceremony
- Events on Fri 26 Aug
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- 10:00 - LGBTQ+ Love, Life and Mental Health with Alexis Caught
- 10:15 - Maddie Mortimer, Tanya Shadrick & Catherine Simpson: Our Bodies, Ourselves
- 11:30 - David Wengrow: Reimagining Prehistory
- 12:15 - Hannah Lavery: Scotland, You’re No’ Mine
- 13:00 - Richard Coles: Cosy, Comical Crime
- 13:30 - Kate Leiper & Karine Polwart : A Wee Bird was Watching
- 14:15 - A M Homes: Division and Dying Dreams
- 14:30 - Nell Stevens & Sarah Winman: Hearing the Voices of Ghosts
- 16:00 - Lea Ypi with Allan Little: What Does Freedom Mean in Europe?
- 16:15 - Fatima Daas & Shumona Sinha: Immigrants in Paris
- 17:00 - Benjamin Dean & Simon James Green: Who Wants the Spotlight?
- 17:30 - Noam Chomsky: Dissent Across the Decades
- 18:15 - Jonathan Franzen: Human Mythologies and Family Histories
- 19:00 - Gemma Cairney & Michael Pedersen: Good Grief!
- 20:15 - Giles Foden with Allan Little: Band of Brothers
- 20:30 - Anne Enright: Writing is a Life
- Events on Sat 27 Aug
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- 10:00 - Cressida Cowell: Which Way to Anywhere?
- 10:15 - Benjamin Dean: The Village of Rainbow Dreams
- 10:30 - Howard W French: Why Africa is at the Centre of History
- 11:30 - Erica McAlister: A Bug's World
- 12:15 - Jessica Au & Stephanie Sy-Quia: Dreams of a Common Language
- 13:00 - Val McDermid & Jo Sharp: Imagine Another Country
- 13:30 - Dean Atta & Juno Dawson: Love in Scotland
- 14:15 - Lola Olufemi: Be the Change
- 14:30 - Michael Rosen: Silly and Not So Silly Poems
- 15:30 - Lucy Caldwell & Louise Kennedy: Belfast in the Blood
- 16:00 - Julia Donaldson’s Storytelling and Songs Show
- 16:15 - Janina Ramirez: Out of the Margins
- 17:30 - Lucy Easthope & Gavin Francis: Coming Back to Ourselves After Disaster
- 18:15 - Eloghosa Osunde: Outlawed in Lagos
- 19:00 - Ocean Vuong: I'm Here to Stay
- 19:30 - Hernan Diaz: All That Glitters is Not Gold
- 20:15 - Samuel Fisher & Daisy Hildyard: The End is Nigh
- 20:30 - Adam Rutherford: A Scientific Scandal
- Events on Sun 28 Aug
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- 10:00 - The Bolds Go Green with Julian Clary & David Roberts
- 10:15 - There's a Tiger in the Garden: The Play
- 10:30 - Candice Carty-Williams: Queen of Contemporary Fiction
- 11:30 - Tsitsi Dangarembga, Dipo Faloyin & Howard W French: Africa's Rich Diversity
- 12:15 - Lennie Goodings: Publishing to Change the World
- 13:00 - Harry Josephine Giles: Deep Wheel Orcadia
- 13:30 - Aisha Bushby, Elle McNicoll & Ross Montgomery: Faeries, Tales and Friendship
- 14:15 - Julia Armfield & Kiran Millwood Hargrave: Writing the Unfathomable
- 14:30 - Jamaica Kincaid: Write Out of Defiance
- 16:00 - Janina Ramirez: Goddesses, Spirits, Saints
- 16:15 - Candice Carty-Williams: Stepping into YA
- 16:30 - Catherine Cho, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan & Helena Lee: East Asian Experiences
- 17:30 - Douglas Stuart with Val McDermid: Knives, Doves and Forbidden Love
- 19:00 - Discretion: A Performance on Independence and Exile
- 19:30 - Sabrina Mahfouz: Notes on the British Empire
- 20:15 - Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: Dismantling Family Histories
- 20:30 - The Last Colony: A Performance on Restoring an Island to its Rightful Owners
- Events on Mon 29 Aug
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- 10:00 - Rosemary Goring, Andrew Greig & Sue Lawrence: Mary, Quite Contrary
- 10:15 - Miranda Cowley Heller: The Eternal Triangle
- 10:30 - Elena Pala, John Retallack & Sandro Veronesi: The World of the Hummingbird
- 11:30 - Philippe Sands: Towards a Less Brutal World
- 12:15 - Denzil Meyrick & Alan Parks: Crime in Scotland’s Cities and Towns
- 13:00 - Danny Ramadan & Pajtim Statovci: The Resilience of Queer Love
- 13:30 - Doug Johnstone: Mysterious Happenings in Modern Edinburgh
- 14:15 - Julie Myerson & Guadalupe Nettel: The Inescapable Question of Motherhood
- 14:30 - Kit de Waal: Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood
- 16:00 - Maria Ressa: Democracy Death by a Thousand Cuts?
- 16:15 - Claire Fuller & Miriam Toews: Family First
- 16:30 - Tsitsi Dangarembga & Esi Edugyan: The Past, Present and Future of Blackness
- 17:30 - Maggie O'Farrell: Renaissance Woman
- 18:15 - Natalia García Freire & Silje Ulstein: Creepy Crawlies
- 19:00 - Irvine Welsh: Crime and Punishment
- 19:30 - Mariana Mazzucato: Can Nations Be Entrepreneurs?
- 20:15 - Rodrigo Blanco Calderón & Daniel Hahn: Lights Out
- 20:30 - Brian Cox with Nicola Sturgeon: The Lion of Dundee
- Events on Tue 30 Aug
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- 10:00 - Scottish Rewilding Adventures with Lindsay Littleson
- 10:15 - Bang! Wallop! Ooft! Meet the Editors of the Beano!
- 11:00 - Saving the World One Library at a Time with Polly Ho-Yen
- 11:45 - Become an Accidental Detective with Serena Patel
- 12:00 - BREAKING NEWS: How to Tell What's Real from What's Rubbish with Nick Sheridan
- 12:45 - Enter the Forest of Lost Things with David C Flanagan
- 13:30 - Take Action and Change the World with Georgina Stevens
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- Events on Sat 14 Aug
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- 10:00 - Julia Donaldson: Songs and Stories for Little Ones
- 11:15 - Jenny Erpenbeck: Freedom Came at a Price
- 11:30 Zoe Wicomb: Questioning South Africa's Colonial Story
- 13:00 - Graeme Armstrong, Jenni Fagan & Caleb Femi: Take Your Place
- 13:15 - Grace Blakeley & Ian Goldin: Creating Change From Crisis
- 14:30 - Malorie Blackman: Noughts & Crosses, Twenty Years On
- 16:00 - Kei Miller: Silence is Violence
- 16:15 - Hoda Barakat: Lost Voices of the Arab Spring
- 17:30 - Torrey Peters: Modern Families, Baby
- 19:00 - Hans Ulrich Obrist: Art for Earth's Sake
- 19:15 - Mariana Enriquez: Argentina's Ghoulish Underbelly
- 20:30 - Opening Night: Culture in a Time of Crisis
- Events on Sun 15 Aug
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- 10:00 - Jodie Lancet-Grant: Parrots, Pirates and Nautical Adventures
- 10:00 - Joan Bakewell & Richard Holloway: Moving On
- 10:45 - Dapo Adeola: Love the Skin You're In
- 11:30 - Michael Rosen: Migration Stories
- 13:00 - Pat Nevin with Val McDermid: Scottish Football's Indie Star
- 14:15 - Julian Aguon & Nina Mingya Powles: Making Environmental Politics Personal
- 14:30 - Caleb Femi: Poet of the Poor
- 16:00 - Tom Devine with Alan Little: Rewriting Scotland's History
- 17:15 - Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé: Play the Cards You're Dealt
- 17:30 - This Separated Isle: State of the Union
- 19:00 - Nick Bryant with Alan Little: The History of Donald Trump
- 20:15 - Tara June Winch: The Blood in Your Words
- 20:30 - Warren Ellis: The Beautiful Connections of a Bad Seed
- Events on Mon 16 Aug
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- 10:00 - Steve Antony, Maureen Phillip & Alexandra Strick: Just be Yourself
- 10:15 - Richard Flanagan: Life Support Systems
- 11:30 - Helena Attlee with Lev Atlas & Greg Lawson: Fiddler on the Don
- 13:00 - Caleb Azumah Nelson: Diving into Black Art
- 13:15 - Dreaming Big on Climate with Mya-Rose Craig
- 14:30 - Robin Robinson & Tim Robertson: Spirits of Scotland
- 16:00 - Wayétu Moore & Nadia Owusu: On Belonging
- 16:15 - Cherie Jones: Behind the Barbadian Picture Postcard
- 17:30 - Reading Scotland: James Robertson, Ghosts of the Glen
- 19:00 - Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk & Nicola Yoon: Blackout
- 19:15 - Yvonne Adhiaambo Owour: Across the Indian Ocean
- 20:30 - Jed Mercurio & Prasanna Puwanarajah: the Bionic Policeman
- Events on Tues 17 Aug
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- 10:00 - Sara Sheridan: On the Scent of Untold Riches
- 10:15 - Nadia Shireen: Meet the Animals of Grimwood
- 11:30 - Scottish Publisher Showcase: Amplfying Voices
- 13:00 - Sarah Ardizzone, Marianne Dubuc & Greet Pauwelijn: Translation Adventures
- 13:15 - Monique Roffey: Conjuring the Spirit of the Caribbean
- 14:30 - Reading Scotland: Shola von Reinhold, Frock Consciousness
- 16:00 - Salena Godden: Bringing Death to Life
- 16:15 - Samar Yazbek: Escapism for Survival
- 17:30 - Alexander McCall Smith: Human Kindness
- 19:00 - Sonia Faleiro & Megha Majumdar: Outrages in India
- 19:15 - Rachel Kushner: Postcards from America
- Events on Wed 18 Aug
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- 10:00 - R Words: Infectious Poetry for Everyone
- 10:15 - Axel Scheffler: Hooray for Pip and Posy!
- 11:30 - Ciaran Martin with Tom Devine: Where Next for the United Kingdom?
- 13:00 - Maria Stepanova: Memory Places
- 13:15 - Leah Cowan, Julián Fuks & Abbas Nazari: Surviving Hostile Environments
- 14:30 - Denise Mina: Treason and Plot
- 16:00 - Harry Josephine Giles & Ely Percy: The Drama's in the Dialect
- 16:15 - Iman Mersal: The Limits and Pleasures of Egyptian Womanhood
- 17:30 - Alex Renton & Lisa Williams: Scotland's Black History Matters
- 19:00 - Carmen Maria Machado: The Language of Violence
- 19:15 - Too Much Information?
- 20:30 - Playing with Books: Sea State by Tabitha Lasley
- Events on Thurs 19 Aug
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- 10:00 - Polly Barton & Eley Williams: Words That Define Us
- 10:15 - Alice Blackwell with Barbara Henderson: Artifacts and Fiction
- 11:30 - Alan Warner: Confessions of a Rock Groupie
- 13:00 - David Peace & Chris Power: Cities That Cast Long Shadows
- 13:15 - David Grossman with Elif Shafak: Duty or Love?
- 14:30 - Val McDermid: The Winter of Our Discontent
- 16:00 - David Diop & Anna Moschovakis: Winners of the 2021 International Booker Prize
- 16:15 - Eva Baltasar & Lina Meruane: Body Politics
- 17:30 - Reading Scotland: Helen McClory, The New Edinburgh Gothic
- 19:00 - Edmund de Waal: Objects of Desire
- 19:15 - Raven Leilani & Patricia Lockwood: Sharp, Fragmentary Fiction
- 20:30 - Doug Johnstone, Val McDermid, Ambrose Parry & Mary Paulson-Ellis: Summer Crime Wave
- Events on Fri 20 Aug
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- 10:00 - Carol Ann Duffy: 'You Danced on the Road, Blowing Kisses'
- 11:15 - Allen Fatimaharan & Hannah Lee: 99 Problems but a Beat Ain't One
- 11:30 - Stuart Kelly: Walter Scott, Writer of the Future?
- 13:00 - Kevin Barry: Looking Across a Bog to the Bluestack Mountain
- 14:15 - Scholastique Mukasonga: Reclaiming Rwanda's Stories
- 14:30 - Peter Ross: The Stories and Glories of Graveyards
- 16:00 - Vivian Gornick: A Map of American Feminism
- 17:15 - Out of the Hot Zone
- 17:30 - Mara Menzies: A Story of Identity
- 19:00 - Salman Rushdie with Allan Little: Standing in the Rubble of Truth
- 20:15 - Viet Thanh Nguyen: Through the Eyes of a Vietnamese Refugee
- 20:30 - The Ultimate Book Show with Thando Mgqolozana
- Events on Sat 21 Aug
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- 10:00 - Michael Morpurgo: Finding Hope in Nature
- 11:15 - Oti Mabuse: Dance with Oti!
- 11:30 - Houzan Mahmoud: Smoke Coming From My Soul
- 13:00 - Scottish BAME Writers Network: Afrofuturism - Present Realities, Possible Futures
- 14:30 - Raynor Winn with Sally Magnusson: Nature and Mortality
- 16:00 - Pat Barker: The Women of Troy
- 17:15 - Rachel Cusk: Home Truths
- 17:30 - Judith Bryan, S I Martin & Nicola Williams with Bernadine Evaristo: Black Britain, Writing Back
- 19:00 - Maggie O'Farrell: Loves, Labours, Loss
- 14:15 - Kathryn Briggs: Art and Resistance
- 20:15 - Jeff VanderMeer: The End of All Things?
- Events on Sun 22 Aug
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- 10:00 - Nana Oforiatta Ayim and Barnaby Phillips: Returning the Loot
- 10:15 - Neil Gaiman & Chris Riddell: Pirate Stew!
- 11:30 - Jasbinder Bilan & Efua Traoré: Stories of Magic and Mythology
- 13:00 - Jeanette Winterson: Machines Like Us
- 14:15 - Marilynne Robinson: The Prodigal Son
- 14:30 - Alastair Chisholm & Elle McNicoll: Can Robots Be Friends?
- 16:00 - Rachel Clarke, Gavin Francis & Kate Mosse: Care in the Time of COVID
- 17:15 - Marwa al-Sabouni & Annalee Newitz: Rebuilding Hope
- 17:30 - Oana Aristide & Courttia Newland: New World Disorder
- 19:00 - Doireann Ní Ghríofa: A Ghost in the Throat
- 20:15 - Kate Aronoff & Elizabeth Kolbert: Reimagining Our Response to the Climate Crisis
- Events on Mon 23 Aug
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- 10:00 - Eilidh Muldoon: Sandy Toes and Inky Fingers: The Scottish Coastal Colouring Book
- 11:30 - One City: A Just Capital?
- 13:00 - Jessie Greengrass & Gwendoline Riley: The Agony of Love
- 13:15 - Jon McGregor: Writing Taken to Extremes
- 14:30 - Alison Bechdel: Can Exercise Fix Us?
- 16:00 - Amartya Sen: Home and Humanity
- 16:15 - Minouche Shafik: Recipe for a Better Society
- 17:30 - Reading Scotland: Graeme Armstrong, Welcome tae Airdrie
- 19:00 - Natasha Brown & Olivia Sudjic: Unravelling Lives
- 19:15 - Damon Galgut: Ghosts of Apartheid
- 20:00 - A Toast to the People: Jay Bernard and Jefferson Tshabalala
- 20:30 - Songs from Scotland
- Events on Tues 24 Aug
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- 10:00 - Kate Milner: Making the Most of a No-Money day
- 10:15 - Liz Kessler & Alex Wheatle: Whose Side of History Are You On?
- 11:30 - Alison Watt with Andrew O'Hagan: The Joy of Influence
- 13:00 - Kerry Andrew & Kerri Ní Dochartaigh: Blood and Water
- 13:15 - Craig Brown: The Slippery Art of Biography
- 14:30 - Sathnam Sanghera: How Imperialism Shapes Modern Britain
- 16:00 - Pragya Agarwal & Shon Faye: Reframing the Personal and Political
- 16:15 - Deborah Levy: A Living Autobiography
- 17:30 - Peter Scott-Morgan: Re-wiring Humanity
- 19:00 - Max Porter: Pen Portraits
- 19:15 - The Force of Law
- 20:30 - Reading Scotland: Jen Hadfield, Landscape and Light
- Events on Wed 25 Aug
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- 10:00 - Anders Frang & Jonathan Meres: the Little Bat Who Was Afraid of the Light
- 11:30 - A L Kennedy: We Are Not Dead Yet
- 13:00 - Tice Cin: Three Women - North Cyprus to Tottenham
- 13:15 - Jonas Eika & Federico Falco: Destroying Literature's Safety Net
- 14:30 - Elif Shafak: If Trees Could Speak
- 16:00 - Lavinia Greenlaw: Honour the Small Words
- 16:15 - Celebrating the Shortlists of the James Tait Black Prizes
- 17:30 - Kathleen Jamie, Peter Mackay & Don Paterson: Heavenly Scottish Poetry
- 19:00 - Willy Vlautin: the American Nightmare
- 19:15 - Ngugi Wa Thiong'o: the Myth of Human Progress
- 20:00 - A Toast to the People: Hollie McNish and Wana Udobang
- 20:30 - Playing with Books: The Long Drop by Denise Mina
- Events on Thurs 26 Aug
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- 10:00 - Debi Gliori: Man's Best Furry Friend
- 11:30 - Reading Scotland: Ross Sayers with Niamh McKeown, Adventures on the Clockwork Orange
- 13:00 - Will McPhail: Drawing Inspiration
- 13:15 - Samanta Schweblin: Tales from the Uncanny Valley
- 14:30 - Raja Shehadeh: The Quest for Peace
- 16:00 - Eimear McBride: Disgust
- 16:15 - Olivia Laing: Your Body is a Battleground
- 17:30 - Ali Smith: Art in a Time of Lies
- 19:00 - Pumla Dineo Gqola & Jacqueline Rose: The Female Fear Factory
- 19:15 - Lisa Taddeo: Violently in Love
- 20:00 - A Toast to the People: Vanessa Kisuule and Safiya Sinclair
- 20:30 - Jackie Kay: My Libidinous, Raunchy, Fearless Blueswoman
- Events on Fri 27 Aug
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- 10:15 - John Agard & Piet Grobler: A Poem for Our Planet
- 11:30 - Devi Sridhar: A Very Political Pandemic
- 13:00 - Daisy Lafarge & Evie Wyld: Strong Female Lead
- 13:15 - Elizabeth Knox: The Political Force of Fantasy
- 14:30 - Matt Haig: Reasons to Feel Okay
- 16:00 - Francis Spufford: Lives They May have Led
- 16:15 - Cressida Cowell: Never and Forever
- 17:30 - Tracey Thorn: Music, Memories and the Blue Moon Rose
- 19:00 - David Keenan: A Mausoleum For the Two of Us
- 19:15 - Forces of Nature, Youth Voices of Climate Change
- 20:00 - A Toast to the People: Francesca Beard and Rafeef Ziadah
- 20:30 - You’ve Never Slept in Mine by Jessie Kesson, adapted by Jenni Fagan
- Events on Sat 28 Aug
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- 11:15 - Naoise Dolan & Naomi Ishiguro: Growing Pains
- 11:30 - Sita Brahmachari, Cressida Cowell & Piers Torday: What a Wonderful World
- 13:00 - Emma Dabiri: Beyond the Anti-Racism 'How To' Guide
- 14:15 - Ed Miliband & Ece Temelkuran: The World We Want
- 14:30 - Claire-Louise Bennett: Imaging a Writer
- 16:00 - Gavin Esler & Samir Puri: Brexit, Britain and the Legacy of Empire
- 17:15 - Shon Faye & Travis Alabanza: Freedom Beyond Toxic Narratives
- 17:30 - Kayo Chingonyi: The Poetry of Existence
- 19:00 - Jeremy Atherton Lin: Coming Out, Going Out
- 20:15 - The New York Times Book Review: The Power of Words
- 20:30 - Hysteria: A Post-Apocalyptic Cabaret
- Events on Sun 29 Aug
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- 10:00 - Gordon Brown: Global Crisis, Global Solutions
- 11:15 - Lucy Farfort: Build Your Own Magical Den
- 11:30 - Tom de Freston & Kiran Millwood Hargrave: In Search of Sharks
- 13:00 - Charlotte Higgins: Why Greek Myths Still Matter
- 14:15 - Ming Chen, Wah Chen & Carmen Vela: Escape, One Day We Had to Run
- 14:30 - Arifa Akbar: The Complexity of Sisterhood
- 16:00 - Abir Mukherjee with Val McDermid: Calcutta on the Brink
- 17:15 - Katie Kitamura: Familiarity and Contempt
- 17:30 - Maggie Nelson: The Many Meanings of Freedom
- 19:00 - Kazuo Ishiguro: On Being Human
- 20:15 - Charles Yu: Smashing Hollywood Stereotypes
- 20:30 - Michael Pedersen presents Good Grief!
- Events on Mon 30 Aug
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- 10:00 - Philip Ardagh: Puss 'n' Books
- 11:30 - Can Artists Still Break the Rules? Revisiting Strategy: Get Arts
- 13:00 - Leone Ross: All the Flavours of Love
- 13:15 - Roisin Kiberd & Lauren Oyler: Online and Disconnected
- 14:30 - Ian Rankin: William McIlvanney - The Last Word
- 16:00 - Wellbeing and Resilience: Imagining a Better Future
- 16:15 - Helena Merriman: Undermining the Berlin Wall
- 17:30 - Playing with Books: The Yellow Door by Kathleen Jamie
- 19:00 - Alicia Garza: Building Moments into Movements
- 19:15 - Hari Kunzru: The Breakdown of Truth
- 20:30 - Douglas Stuart with Nicola Sturgeon: Welcome Home, Shuggie Bain
- Drawalong 2021
- Debi Gliori's Illustration Trail
- Children's Audio Events 2021
- The Baillie Gifford Schools Programme 2021
- 15 Jan 2021: Jenni Fagan on Luckenbooth with Denise Mina
- The 2021 International Booker Prize Events >>
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- 29 April: Olga Ravn and Martin Aitken w/ Heather Parry
- 6 May: Mariana Enriquez and Megan McDowell w/ Daniel Hahn
- 13 May: David Diop and Anna Moschovakis w/Phillipe Sands
- 20 May: Benjamin Labatut and Adrian Nathan West w/ Jay G Ying
- 25 May: Maria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale w/ Allan Little
- 27 May: Eric Vuillard and Mark Polizzotti w/ Amelia Gentleman
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- Events on Sat 15 Aug
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- 10:00 - Gruffalos, Conjurors and Teeny Weeny Genies with Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler and Nick Sharratt
- 11:30 - Poems Aloud with Joseph Coelho
- 16:00 - Olivette Otele & Angela Saini: Pseudoscience and Slavery
- 17:30 -Val McDermid: Portrait of a Criminal
- 19:00 - Maggie O’Farrell: Giving New Life to Shakespeare’s Son
- Events on Sun 16 Aug
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- 10:00 - Picturing Tomorrow with Nadine Kaadan
- 11:30 - Llama Drama with Allen Fatimaharan & Annabelle Sami
- 13:00 - Shifting Sands, Five Years On: What Future for the Middle East?
- 16:00 - Rutger Bregman: There is Hope for the Human Race
- 17:30 - The New York Times Book Review Live
- 19:00 - Amelia Gentleman: Windrush – A Very British Betrayal
- 20:30 - Hilary Mantel: Inside the Head of Thomas Cromwell
- Events on Mon 17 Aug
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- 10:00 - A New Kind of Superhero with Samantha Baines
- 11:30 - Stuart Cosgrove: The Soul Of Muhammad Ali
- 13:00 - Natalie Diaz & Ellen van Neerven: Voices of Indigenous Resistance
- 14:30 - Michele Hutchison & Marieke Lucas Rijneveld: Reap What You Sow
- 16:00 - Jenny Offill: Storm Warning
- 17:30 - Linn Ullmann: Portrait of a Family
- 19:00 - Ian Rankin: A Rebus for the Dark Times
- 20:30 - Roger Robinson: ‘Ordinary Poems Won’t Change the World’
- Events on Tue 18 Aug
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- 10:00 - Formidable Females with Lari Don & Eilidh Muldoon
- 13:00 - Ekow Eshun: Africa is a State of Mind
- 14:30 - Hallie Rubenhold: The Problem with Great Men
- 16:00 - Get Adventurous with Lily Dyu & Helen Skelton
- 17:30 - Colum McCann: An Infinity of Stories
- 19:00 - Philippe Sands with Ian Rankin: On the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive
- 20:30 - Women in Politics: A Year of Reckoning
- Events on Wed 19 Aug
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- 11:30 - Shokoofeh Azar: After the Iranian Revolution
- 13:00 - Eliza Anyangwe & Emmanuel Iduma: Outriders Africa – Deconstructing the Travelogue
- 14:30 - Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi: Uganda’s First Woman of Fiction
- 16:00 - Voices from the Past with Patrice Lawrence & Bali Rai
- 17:30 - Maaza Mengiste: When Italy Invaded Ethiopia
- 19:00 - Marian Keyes: Family Matters
- 20:30 - Val McDermid & Jo Sharp: Shaping a Better Future
- Events on Thu 20 Aug
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- 10:00 - Magical Moggies with Philip Ardagh & Rob Biddulph
- 11:30 - Gabriela Cabezón Cámara: The Female Gaucho
- 13:00 - Yoko Ogawa & Stephen Snyder: The Memory of Forgetting
- 14:30 - Tales of Two Planets: Making Climate Change Personal
- 16:00 - James Naughtie: The USA, from Reagan to Trump
- 17:30 - Dean Atta & George Lester: Shine On
- 19:00 - Suzanne Bonnar, Joy Harjo & Jackie Kay: Makar to Makar - Sonnets from Scotland
- 20:30 - Garth Greenwell: Intimate Truths
- Events on Fri 21 Aug
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- 10:00 - Pony Pals with Kate McLelland
- 11:30 - Wanjiru Koinange & Donna Obaseki-Ogunnaike: Outriders Africa – Sub-Saharan Swiping
- 13:00 - The Queer Arab Vanguard
- 14:30 - James Tait Black Prizes
- 16:00 - Kirstin Innes: Who is Clio Campbell?
- 19:00 - Lola Olufemi & Minna Salami: Critical Reflections on Feminism
- Events on Sat 22 Aug
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- 10:00 - Why Plastic isn’t Fantastic: Dapo Adeola & Nathan Bryon
- 11:30 - Liz Hyder: In the Jaws of Bearmouth
- 13:00 - Fire Front: First Nations Poetry and Power
- 14:30 - Sophie Hughes & Fernanda Melchor: Another Mexico
- 16:00 - Cassandra Clare: All that Glitters is Not Gold
- 17:30 - Isabel Wilkerson: America’s Unspoken Caste System
- 19:00 - Edwidge Danticat: ‘Death Cannot Write Its Own Story'
- 20:30 - Bernardine Evaristo with Nicola Sturgeon: The Triumph of Girl, Woman, Other
- Events on Sun 23 Aug
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- 10:00 - Polly Dunbar & Michael Morpurgo – Owl or Pussycat?
- 11:30 - Sarah Moss: Unhappy Campers
- 13:00 - Joshua Wong: Hong Kong’s Champion for Democracy
- 14:30 - Gavin Francis & Kapka Kassabova: The Lie of the Land
- 16:00 - Representation Matters with Hannah Lee & Jessica Love
- 17:30 -Working with Words: Inside the New York Times Crossword
- 19:00 - Anne Enright with Vicky Featherstone: Mothers and Daughters
- Events on Mon 24 Aug
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- 10:00 - Alexander McCall Smith with Ruth Davidson: For the Love of Humankind
- 11:30 - Nadine Aisha Jassat & Tsitsi Dangarembga: Outriders Africa Following in their Footsteps
- 13:00 - Ross Benjamin & Daniel Kehlmann: When History Prefigures Our Own Times
- 14:30 - Yiyun Li: One-way Correspondence
- 16:00 - Kathleen Jamie, Chitra Ramaswamy & Amanda Thomson: Antlers of Water
- 17:30 - Billy-Ray Belcourt & Mary Jean Chan: Words Will Set You Free
- 19:00 - Anne Applebaum: Democracy Under Siege
- 20:30 - David Eagleman: A Mind-Blowing Future
- Events on Tue 25 Aug
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- 11:30 - Michel Faber: The ‘Evil Is In The ‘Etail
- 13:00 - Selva Almada: Giving Voice to the Victims of Femicide
- 14:30 - Maryse Condé & Richard Philcox: Giving Voice to Guadeloupe
- 16:00 - Richard Holloway: The Human Need for Stories
- 17:30 - Retelling Tales with Joseph Coelho, Juno Dawson & Kiran Millwood Hargrave
- 19:00 - Olivia Laing: Art is Political
- 20:30 - Helen Macdonald: The Natural World Beyond ‘H is For Hawk’
- Events on Wed 26 Aug
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- 10:00 - Time Travelling with Patience Agbabi & Ben Miller
- 11:30 - Nadine Aisha Jassat, Sabrina Mahfouz & Amanda Thomson: Outriders Africa - Cape Town, From Art to Ancestry
- 13:00 - Adania Shibli: When the Present is Haunted by the Past
- 16:00 - Wayétu Moore: Setting Liberia’s History Free
- 17:30 - Douglas Stuart: The Making of Shuggie Bain
- 19:00 - International Booker Prize: First Interview with the 2020 Winner
- 20:30 - Alain Mabanckou: Rewriting the Congolese Story
- Events on Thu 27 Aug
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- 10:00 - Sensory Stories and Crafts with Ailie Finlay & Kate Leiper
- 11:30 - Ann Goldstein: Meet Elena Ferrante’s Translator
- 13:00 - Mieko Kawakami: Three Daughters of Osaka
- 14:30 - Susan Abulhawa: Grace in the Face of Violence
- 16:00 - David Mitchell with Sam Amidon: The Music of Utopia Avenue
- 17:30 - Nikita Gill & Nic Stone: Writing Resistance
- 20:30 - Samantha Power with Allan Little: What One Person Can Do’
- Events on Fri 28 Aug
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- 10:00 - Stitched Together: Family, Friends and Dreaming Big with Laura Dockrill & Sara Ogilvie
- 14:30 - Who’s Afraid of the Working Class?
- 16:00 - Amin Maalouf & Jonathan Sacks: Rediscovering Our Moral Compass
- 17:30 - Sebastian Barry: Tales from an Uncivil War
- 19:00 - Brit Bennett: How the Other Twin Lives
- 20:30 - Ali Smith & Sarah Wood: Festival – a Film
- Events on Sat 29 Aug
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- 10:00 - Cooking and Drawing up a Storm with Julia Donaldson, Lydia Monks & Sara Ogilvie
- 11:30 - Money, Money, Money with Rashmi Sirdeshpande
- 13:00 - Sarah Crossan with Sally Magnusson: The Other Woman
- 14:30 - William Dalrymple with Fergal Keane: Rapacity and Excess in Imperial India
- 16:00 - Sharna Jackson & Robin Stevens: Super Sleuths
- 17:30 - Should Capitalism Survive Climate Change?
- 19:00 - Samantha Irby: Bitches Gotta Eat
- 20:30 - Elif Shafak: Writing the World’s Wrongs
- Events on Sun 30 Aug
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- 10:00 - Illustrate your Feelings with Dunja Jogan
- 11:30 - Super Scribbles and Canine Capers with Rob Biddulph
- 13:00 - Masha Gessen with Philippe Sands: Facing Down President Putin
- 14:30 - Allie Esiri: A Poem for Every Autumn Day
- 16:00 - A Fantastical Escape with Cressida Cowell, Eoin Colfer & Kiran Millwood Hargrave
- 17:30 - Andrew O’Hagan: Heydays in the Haçienda
- 19:00 - Paul Mendez & Derek Owusu: Thorny Intersections
- 20:30 - Christiana Figueres & Tom Rivett-Carnac: How We Can Survive the Climate Crisis
- Events on Mon 31 Aug
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Birlinn
Established in 1992, Birlinn Limited publishes books under a number of imprints: Birlinn; Polygon; BC Books; Arena Sport; and John Donald.
The Birlinn imprint publishes Scottish and general UK interest books, from biography to history, military to politics, and Scottish Gaelic. The name comes from the old Norse word ‘birlinn’, meaning a long boat or small galley used especially in the Hebrides and West Highlands of Scotland in the Middle Ages.
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A Sketchbook of Edinburgh
£20.00
In this evocative book Iain and Anne Fraser take the reader, both visitor and resident, on a personal journey through the centre of one of the world's most unforgettable cities.
A Taste of Scotland's Islands
£20.00
The Scottish islands are full of innovative cooks and restaurants and this book will introduce readers to an exciting and unfamiliar regional cuisine
A Taste of the Highlands
£25.00
A brand-new cookery-cum-travel book featuring over 100 recipes, from the traditional to the contemporary, showcasing the very best produce from the Scottish Highlands.
A Time of Tyrants: Scotland and the Second World War
£12.99
Trevor Royle examines Scotland's role in the Second World War from a wide range of perspectives. The country's geographical position gave it great strategic importance for importing war materiel and reinforcements, for conducting naval and aerial operations against the enemy and for training regular and specialist SOE and commando forces.
A Wee Bird Was Watching
£6.99
An exquisite retelling of the tale of how the robin got its red breast by one of the country's most popular singer-songwriters.
Acid Attack: A Journalist's War with Organised Crime
£8.99
A fascinating and unique perspective on the Scottish crime scene by an acclaimed investigative journalist
Ardnish Was Home: A Novel
£8.99
A moving love story and engaging account of early twentieth-century Highland life.
Ardnish: A Novel
£8.99
Ardnish, the Highlands of Scotland, 1944. On his deathbed, Donald John Gillies sends for a priest to hear his last confession. During his 85 years he has witnessed much - world wars, the loss of family through death and emigration, and the daily struggles which face the small remote community.
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