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2024 Book Festival Highlights

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YA Book Prize 2024: Meet the Shortlisted Writers

YA Book Prize 2024: Meet the Shortlisted Writers

Meet some of the incredible authors shortlisted for this year’s YA Book Prize. The award – now in its 10th year – is organised by The Bookseller, and previous winners include Danielle Jawando’s When Our Worlds Collided, Alice Oseman’s Loveless, and Sarah Crossan’s One. As always, this year’s winners will be decided by a panel of experts and teenage judges. Come along to hear some of the best YA fiction voices writing today. The full line-up of writers will be revealed in June. (Note: this event takes place…

Val McDermid & Jo Sharp: Shaping a Better Future (2020 Event)
Val McDermid & Jo Sharp: Shaping a Better Future (2020 Event)

At last year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival, bestselling author Val McDermid and professor of geography Jo Sharp were inspired by the festival theme, We Need New Stories…

Stuart Cosgrove: The Soul Of Muhammad Ali (2020 Event)
Stuart Cosgrove: The Soul Of Muhammad Ali (2020 Event)

As well as documenting the meteoric rise of one of the all-time sporting greats, Cosgrove shows how soul music formed a soundtrack to an era of social and political turmoil. Join…

The Sea Around Us
The Sea Around Us by Tania Kovats

Rachel Carson (b.1907-64) is one of the most significant voices to help us grasp the consequences of what we were doing to our planet. She communicated with a powerful intelligence and engaging poetry to tell the story of our seas…