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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
14:30 - 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 with Don Paterson – Orlam: A Conversation
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
Festival 2020
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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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10:00 - Brain-fizzing Facts with Emily Grossman
11:30 - Kayus Bankhole & Kei Miller: Outriders Africa from East to West
13:00 - Oliver Jeffers: What We'll Build
14:30 - Matt Haig: The Library of Second Chances
16:00 - Arundhati Roy: Portal to a New World
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