Explore the Festival programme

The Edinburgh International Book Festival takes place from 9-24 August 2025. The programme will be available in June. Sign up for our ebulletins or follow us on social media to hear announcements and updates.

In the meantime, you can enjoy watching Festival events on the website, have a look at our Festival photographs, listen to or download free podcasts of event recordings and watch exclusive interviews and Festival highlights from past Book Festivals on our YouTube channel and your favourite podcast platforms.

2024 Book Festival Highlights

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Apparently by Karen Campbell

You are standing in a garden, crying. This morning you watched your grandmother push scraps from the breakfast plates into a Tupperware bowl…