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Supertato goes BAD! with Paul Linnet

Age 3-6

Sunday 18 August 10:00 - 11:00

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Get ready for the shock of your life… Supertato’s gone BAD! But what does this mean for The Evil Pea? Paul Linnet, co-creator of the bestselling Supertato series, returns to the Book Festival to celebrate the 10th birthday of everyone’s favourite…
 

Out of This World with Michael Rosen

Age 6+

Sunday 18 August 13:30 - 14:30

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Michael Rosen is one of the nation’s best loved voices in children’s literature. The former Children’s Laureate has written more than 150 books for all ages including the classic We’re Going on a Bear Hunt. Come along for a fun-filled event of stories…
 

Howard Jacobson: Like a Bolt Out the Blue

Sunday 18 August 15:15 - 16:15

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What happens when love surprises you later in life? How long can it last? Howard Jacobson, Booker-prize-winning author of The Finkler Question and author of more than twenty books besides, explores this, and more, in What Will Survive of Us: a tender new…
 

Rachel Cusk: A Carousel of Lives

Sunday 18 August 17:00 - 18:00

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Rachel Cusk is arguably one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary British literature, widely celebrated for her ability to fold the momentous into the seemingly mundane. The celebrated author of the Outline trilogy returns to the Festival…
 

Paul Lynch: Let Awake People Be Awake

Sunday 18 August 19:00 - 20:00

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Paul Lynch describes his 2023 Booker Prize-winning Prophet Song as an ‘attempt at radical empathy’. Nicola Sturgeon discusses the power of fiction to illuminate the possible with this writer at the top of his game…
 

Tracy Chevalier & Harriet Constable: The Floating City

Monday 19 August 10:30 - 11:30

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What makes Venice such a rich subject for historical fiction? What untold stories does the city hold? Join Harriet Constable (with her debut The Instrumentalist) and Tracy Chevalier (with The Glassmaker, her 11th novel in a career including Girl with a…
 

Karl Ove Knausgård: Written in the Stars

Monday 19 August 12:15 - 13:15

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Long-lost siblings reunite in Karl Ove Knausgård’s latest novel. Moving from 1980s Norway to present-day Russia, The Wolves of Eternity builds like a Victorian novel, moving between characters whose lives intersect beneath a bright new star in the sky…
 

Annabelle Hirsch: Pieces of a Woman

Monday 19 August 14:00 - 15:00

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What are the objects that make up a woman’s life? A cave painting? A metal corset? Radium-laced chocolate? In A History of Women in 101 Objects, Annabelle Hirsch tours the often overlooked history of women, uncovering new stories from the objects women…
 

Eva Baltasar: A Mammoth Achievement

Monday 19 August 16:00 - 17:00

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In this digital event, Catalan poet and writer Eva Baltasar joins us to celebrate her latest work, Mammoth, the final in her internationally acclaimed trilogy that begun with Permafrost, followed by Boulder. Baltasar takes the world by its horns in…
 

Alexander McCall Smith: A Passion for Fiction

Monday 19 August 17:00 - 18:00

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We welcome national treasure Alexander McCall Smith to the Festival to unveil his brand-new series, The Perfect Passion Company. McCall Smith is joined in conversation by chair, James Crawford…