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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
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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
- 15 Jan 2021: Jenni Fagan on Luckenbooth with Denise Mina
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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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