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Tuesday 13 August 13:30 - 14:30
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Join Alice Oseman, the creator of global smash-hit coming-of-age romance Heartstopper, for a very special in conversation event with Lauren James…
Tuesday 13 August 16:00 - 17:00
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Does confronting death bring us closer to finding purpose and meaning in life? In his memoir The Body in the Library, Graham Caveney chronicles the year following his terminal cancer diagnosis with uplifting tenderness and frank humour. Joining us today…
Wednesday 14 August 11:00 - 12:00
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In The AI Mirror, EFI’s Chair in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence, Shannon Vallor’s research explores how new technologies reshape human moral character, habits, and practices. Novelist Antor Hur’s debut, Toward Eternity, imagines a world…
Wednesday 14 August 12:15 - 13:15
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Two titanic voices in the analysis of booming misinformation and conspiracy theories, Peter Pomerantsev and Marianna Spring, come together for an essential summit on one of the great dangers of our time, in conversation with Maddison Connaughton…
Wednesday 14 August 12:30 - 13:30
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New York Times bestseller Tommy Orange writes fiction both tender and devastating. As an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, his debut, There There, explored the breadth of modern Native American lives. He talks today with Ali…
Wednesday 14 August 15:30 - 16:30
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Dolly Alderton is a self-confessed over-sharer. ‘All I want to do is tell everyone everything. I connect with people through the details of life.’ This sharing – of the good, the bad, and the messy bits of living – has become Alderton’s trademark…
Wednesday 14 August 17:00 - 18:00
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Jeremy Bowen, International Editor BBC News, has been covering the Middle East since 1989. His deep understanding of the political, cultural, and religious differences between countries as diverse as Turkey, Syria, Israel, and Palestine shine from The…
Thursday 15 August 14:00 - 15:00
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None of This is True is the addictive new psychological thriller by internationally bestselling Lisa Jewell. It follows a podcaster whose life begins to unravel when a seemingly chance encounter leads to the discovery of dark secrets. Hear Jewell in…
Thursday 15 August 14:30 - 15:30
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Step into the world of Brazilian literature with renowned author Itamar Vieira Junior. This year, Rio joins Edinburgh in the City of Literature network and prepares for its role as the upcoming World Book Capital in 2025. Join us for a vibrant…
Thursday 15 August 19:30 - 20:30
Thursday 15 August 20:45 - 21:45
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In a unique, magical event, virtuoso percussionist Evelyn Glennie appears with award-winning poet Raymond Antrobus to share extraordinary new work they’ve been creating together. Conversation blends with musical performance as Glennie improvises to…
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Friday 16 August 10:00 - 10:30
Friday 16 August 16:00 - 17:00
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The International Booker is the annual award for the best novel or short story collection from around the world and translated into English. Today, join Iona Macintyre, Michael Hofmann (joint winner of the International Booker Prize 2024 for his…
Friday 16 August 17:00 - 18:00
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In 2012, a horrific bus crash on the outskirts of Jerusalem killed many Palestinian schoolchildren. One of them was five-year-old Milad Salama and, in tracing his father Abed’s efforts to find his son, journalist Nathan Thrall tells the story of lives…
Friday 16 August 17:45 - 18:45
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‘Often the first casualty of stress is joy’ says health psychologist Vincent Deary. An expert in fatigue, Deary has spent his career helping people pushed past their limits. Hear him talk with Talat Yaqoob about how better understanding our struggle can…
Friday 16 August 18:15 - 19:15
Friday 16 August 18:45 - 19:45
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Beloved broadcaster Lorraine Kelly first visited Orkney in 1985 and has returned every year since then. Orkney is also the setting for her debut novel, The Island Swimmer. An instant Sunday Times bestseller, it’s a tale of facing the past, self-discovery…
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Saturday 17 August 11:15 - 12:15
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Have you ever felt emotions so big, it’s kind of hard to talk about them? Come along to hear award-winning writer Raymond Antrobus and illustrator Ken Wilson-Max as they chat about siblings, empathy, and their new picture book, Terrible Horses. They’ll…
Saturday 17 August 12:15 - 13:15
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Twice Booker-shortlisted author Chigozie Obioma’s new novel, The Road to the Country, is the story of two brothers divided during the devastating Nigerian Civil War. As they seek to reunite, their journeys become odysseys in a war-torn land. Obioma –…
Saturday 17 August 16:00 - 17:00
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Anamnesis is Greek for ‘recollection of the past’. It’s also the title of Iona Lee’s latest poetry collection which prompted Darren McGarvey to write, ‘Lee performs open-heart surgery on the English language’. Similar could be said for Jenni Fagan’s A…
Celebrating the 2024 Book Festival 
