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- Edinburgh International Book Festival Events - 2021 >>
- Events on Sat 14 Aug
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 10:00 - Michael Morpurgo: Finding Hope in Nature
- 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
- 20:15 - Jeff VanderMeer: The End of All Things?
- Events on Sun 22 Aug
- 10:00 - Dan Hicks: 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
- 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
- 10:00 - Kate Milner: Making the Most of a No-Money day
- 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
- 10:15 - Liz Kessler & Alex Wheatle: Whose Side of History Are You On?
- Events on Wed 25 Aug
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 19:15 - 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
- 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