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Scots Bookbug with Scots Language Centre

Age 0-5

Monday 19 August 11:00 - 11:30

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Why not try? Lost and Found with David Colmer & Leo Timmers Lost and Found with David Colmer & Leo Timmers 2-7 Sat 24 Aug 13:00 - 14:00
 

Scott Hames, Joyce McMillan & James Robertson: Scottish Writing After Devolution

Monday 19 August 12:00 - 13:00

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As part of our series exploring the impact of 25 years of devolution, Scott Hames, Kieran Hurley, James Robertson and Joyce McMillan examine this as a turning point for Scottish culture. How have politics, literature and theatre intertwined? Has politics…
 

Pop in and Play!

All Ages

Monday 19 August 12:00 - 16:00

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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…
 

Suzie Miller & Lucia Osborne-Crowley: Who Gets Believed?

Monday 19 August 12:30 - 13:30

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Though one’s a journalist and the other a playwright and novelist, Lucia Osborne-Crowley and Suzie Miller share much in common: both are trained lawyers, both have powerful books about women’s courage in the face of disbelief, and both are profoundly…
 

Book Talk: Industry Insights for Writers

Monday 19 August 12:30 - 18:30

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Edinburgh International Book Festival presents an afternoon of panels and networking for writers, bringing together perspectives from across the publishing industry – from agents and editors to crowdfunding experts. Today’s sessions offer practical…
 

Lauren Elkin: Building a Life

Monday 19 August 12:45 - 13:45

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Does the past ever leave a place? Lauren Elkin, author of Art Monsters and Flâneuse, makes her first foray into fiction with Scaffolding, a novel about two couples living in the same Parisian apartment: one in 2019 and one in 1972. Despite being 40 years…
 

Justified Sinner 200: Confessions Book Club

Monday 19 August 13:45 - 14:45

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Dig into the heart of this extraordinary book with writers including Ian Rankin, Ever Dundas, and David Greig. Utterly ahead of its time, with multiple possible readings both supernatural and psychological, Confessions is considered one of the first…
 

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…
 

Colin Barrett: Chaos in County Mayo

Monday 19 August 14:15 - 15:15

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Masterfully evoking the claustrophobia of small-town life, Colin Barrett chats today about 2024 Booker-nominated Wild Houses, his drugs-feud thriller narrated by an unwitting accomplice to a kidnapping. Barrett’s debut novel is slick, funny, and his…