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Louise Welsh: When the Past Comes Knocking

Tuesday 20 August 12:15 - 13:15

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Corruption, crime, and compromise: Book Festival favourite Louise Welsh returns with To the Dogs, her 10th novel since her 2002 debut, The Cutting Room (Most Inspiring Saltire First Book Award winner by public vote in 2018). Welsh talks to Peggy Hughes…
 

Caoilinn Hughes & Neel Mukherjee: Where Do We Go From Here?

Tuesday 20 August 12:30 - 13:30

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Two authors discuss their profound novels of interconnectedness. The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes and Choice by Neel Mukherjee tackle their subjects from different positions: Hughes’ novel, though largely about climate change, is ultimately hopeful…
 

Paul Muldoon: How to Read a Poem

Tuesday 20 August 12:30 - 14:00

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Why not try? Shane Strachan: Writing Art in Edinburgh Workshop Shane Strachan: Writing Art in Edinburgh Workshop Tue 13 Aug 10:15 - 11:45
 

Robbie Arnott & Jean-Baptiste Del Amo: A Long Shadow

Tuesday 20 August 12:45 - 13:45

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Can we choose who we become, or are our lives already mapped out for us by dint of who we’re related to? Limberlost (by twice Miles Franklin Award-listed author, Robbie Arnott) and The Son of Man (by Animalia author, Jean-Baptiste Del Amo) are brilliant…
 

Shasta Ali, Leah Black & Vicky Nyanga-Ndiaye: Regenerative Futures

Tuesday 20 August 13:45 - 14:45

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What needs to be in place to allow for transformational, long-term change in our communities? And who gets to imagine and act out this change? Join Leah Black from Edinburgh’s Regenerative Futures Fund alongside Shasta Ali (writer, poet, and antiracism…
 

Thomas Heatherwick: Design for Living

Tuesday 20 August 14:00 - 15:00

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The mantra ‘form follows function’ has ruled the design world for more than 100 years. But what if it misses out the most important thing of all: human emotion? Fighting ‘an epidemic of boringness’, English designer Thomas Heatherwick demands that we put…
 

Harriet Constable & Elle Machray: Feminist Revisionist History

Tuesday 20 August 14:15 - 15:15

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Venice, 1707. An orphaned girl is determined to become the city’s greatest violinist against the odds in Harriet Constable’s The Instrumentalist. London, 1770. A once enslaved woman is determined to take down the transatlantic slave trade in Elle Machray’…
 

Lucia Osborne-Crowley & Chimene Suleyman: Behind Bluebeard's Door

Tuesday 20 August 14:30 - 15:30

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Two writers talk to Roxani Krystalli about women and girls betrayed by those meant to protect them. In The Lasting Harm, journalist Lucia Osborne-Crowley recounts Ghislaine Maxwell’s 2021 trial through the lens of women whose lives have been permanently…
 

Nina Stibbe: Back In Town

Tuesday 20 August 15:30 - 16:30

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Twenty years after she left London, the award-winning diarist Nina Stibbe returns with her cockapoo, Peggy. As Stibbe observes the capital, she takes in the changes – online dating and Instagram posers – as well as the same old faces. Went to London…
 

Recycling a Hospital Writing Workshop: Poetry, Memory and Future Dreaming

Tuesday 20 August 15:30 - 17:00

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Can stories from the past inspire dreams of the future? Recycling a Hospital encourages us to think about the Edinburgh Futures Institute’s history as a place of care, and how we can carry stories from the hospital’s past meaningfully into the future…