Saturday 10 August 15:15 - 16:15
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We are thrilled to present Margaret Atwood, appearing remotely, illuminating a concept that has gripped her extraordinary imagination of late, and offering a way forward from the most intractable challenges of our time – Practical Utopias…
Saturday 10 August 17:00 - 18:30
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Our Future Tense theme asks us all to consider the kind of future we want to share. In tonight’s gala event, we bring you a kaleidoscope of perspectives and provocations, from the hopeful to the portentous. Be inspired, challenged, and delighted by…
Saturday 10 August 18:15 - 19:15
Saturday 10 August 19:20 - 20:35
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One of Scotland’s most beloved comedy double acts of all time, Alan Cumming and Forbes Masson, are delving back into their comedy past, to present ‘Victor and Barry’s Kelvinside Compendium’, a riotous romp through their formative years treading the…
Saturday 10 August 19:30 - 20:30
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Elif Shafak’s latest novel explores profound connections across borders and sees her immersed deep in the mysteries of water. Today the Booker Prize nominated author of The Island of Missing Trees launches There are Rivers in the Sky, a luminous story of…
Sunday 11 August 10:15 - 11:15
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Balsam Karam and Chitra Ramaswamy come together to talk about their lyrical tales of motherhood and to illuminate those facets of becoming and being a mother that are often perplexing and obscured…
Sunday 11 August 12:15 - 13:15
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‘Your leader was beaten by a woman who was beaten by a lettuce’ – so begins a recent online-retort from Labour’s Jess Phillips in typically direct style. One of the nation’s most outspoken MPs, Phillips stands out for her integrity. She talks to Liz…
Sunday 11 August 14:15 - 15:15
Sunday 11 August 15:45 - 16:45
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When Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, she also embarked upon an imaginative discovery of the pleasures and possibilities of gardens through the ages. The Garden Against Time explores their significance in Western culture, from…
Sunday 11 August 16:00 - 17:00
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We continue our Future Tense series exploring two very different perspectives on how the future might play out. In The 100 Trillion Dollar Wealth Transfer, banker and philanthropist Ken Costa imagines how generational transfer of economic control might…
Sunday 11 August 18:15 - 19:15
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Monday 12 August 10:00 - 10:30
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Monday 12 August 11:00 - 11:30
Monday 12 August 13:30 - 14:30
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With the General Election looming (or at least the possibility of its announcement), the political news cycle is in overdrive. James O’Brien, one of Britain’s leading broadcasters, is among the fiercest critics of contemporary Britain's management by our…
Monday 12 August 14:15 - 15:15
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Language matters, and when we talk about atrocities as if they are commonplace, we start normalising their happening. Award-winning investigative journalist Patricia Evangelista talks to Jen Stout about Some People Need Killing, discussing six years of…
Monday 12 August 15:00 - 16:00
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Journalist, newsreader, and presenter on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Mishal Husain delves into her family’s past in her memoir, Broken Threads. Connecting fragments from her family history through letters and diaries, Husain discovers how her…
Monday 12 August 18:45 - 19:45
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Naomi Alderman’s bestselling speculative novel, The Power, won her the Women’s Prize for Fiction and was one of Barack Obama’s favourite books of 2017. Her new novel, The Future, is as hilarious as it is unnerving: a wild heist featuring tech giants…
Monday 12 August 20:00 - 21:15
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Enjoy tasty food and brilliant performances from local people. Returning for its fifth year, Stories and Scran celebrates dynamic, thought-provoking work created by our Citizen participants. Expect diverse and creative talent from Project Esperanza’s…
Monday 12 August 20:30 - 21:30
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Two thrilling new cases arrive at the Festival. Detective Declan Miller returns in The Wrong Hands, the latest from Mark Billingham – declared ‘the very best in the business’ by Richard Osman. In Abir Mukherjee’s Hunted, two parents are thrown together…
Celebrating the 2024 Book Festival 
