HOME | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVALSUPPORT USON THE ROADLEARNINGLEAVING A LEGACYPRESS RELEASESHOW TO BOOK 14–30 Aug 2021. Menu. Edinburgh International Book Festival. Next Festival: 14–30 Aug 2021. HOME | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL 14–30 Aug 2021. Menu. Edinburgh International Book Festival. Next Festival: 14–30 Aug 2021. WHAT'S ON | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL The next Edinburgh International Book Festival will take place from 14-30 August 2021. The programme will be announced in early July. Sign up for our ebulletins or follow us on social media to hear announcements and updates. In the meantime, you can enjoy watching Festival events on the website, have a look at our Festival

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The next Edinburgh International Book Festival will take place from 14-30 August 2021. The programme will be announced in early July. Sign up for our ebulletins or follow us on social media to hear announcements and updates. In the meantime, you can enjoy watching Festival events on the website, have a look at our Festival

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BECOME A BENEFACTOR

Become a Benefactor and help us write the next chapter in the story of the Edinburgh International Book Festival. If you would like to discuss becoming a Benefactor, please email our Head of Development, Helen Chomczuk helen@edbookfest.co.uk to arrange for a chat. STAFF | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL Year round staff. Nick Barley – Director. Laura Aldis – Administrator. Amanda Barry – Head of Marketing & PR. Adam Barclay - Booksales Operations Manager. Lewis Camley – Marketing Manager. Helen Chomczuk – Head of Development. Noëlle Cobden – Communities Programme Director. Becca Di Francesco – Sponsorship Officer. MARIA STEPANOVA & SASHA DUGDALE WITH ALLAN LITTLE From Tue 25 May - In an era when everything from photographs to credit cards and notes can all be preserved and stored on our personal devices, what is the impact on our own brain’s ability to store

memories? Maria

OLGA RAVN & MARTIN AITKEN WITH HEATHER PARRY Lost in Space. Since she published her debut novel Celestine in 2015, Olga Ravn has come to be regarded as one of the most influential writers in contemporary Danish literature. In her new book, The Employees, she has crafted a small masterpiece; brilliantly translated into English by award-winning translator Martin Aitken, whose own work spans Danish and Norwegian literature. NEW REBUS TV SERIES IN DEVELOPMENT, WRITTEN BY ‘BLACK Popular crime novelist Ian Rankin confirmed that a new television adaptation of his Rebus novels is currently in development, to be written by Black Watch playwright Gregory Burke. “Last year a production company contacted me and said they would love to do Rebus properly, with six-eight-ten or more hour-long episodes,” Rankin told a sold-out audience at the Edinburgh International Book

ROBERT SEETHALER

Robert Seethaler is an Austrian living in Berlin and is the author of four previous novels. A Whole Life is his first work to be translated into English and is already a German bestseller, selling over 100,000 copies. The book has been translated from its original German by

Charlotte Collins.

HOME | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVALSUPPORT USON THE ROADLEARNINGLEAVING A LEGACYPRESS RELEASESHOW TO BOOK 14–30 Aug 2021. Menu. Edinburgh International Book Festival. Next Festival: 14–30 Aug 2021. HOME | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL 14–30 Aug 2021. Menu. Edinburgh International Book Festival. Next Festival: 14–30 Aug 2021. WHAT'S ON | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL The next Edinburgh International Book Festival will take place from 14-30 August 2021. The programme will be announced in early July. Sign up for our ebulletins or follow us on social media to hear announcements and updates. In the meantime, you can enjoy watching Festival events on the website, have a look at our Festival

photographs, listen

EVENTS LIST

The next Edinburgh International Book Festival will take place from 14-30 August 2021. The programme will be announced in early July. Sign up for our ebulletins or follow us on social media to hear announcements and updates. In the meantime, you can enjoy watching Festival events on the website, have a look at our Festival

photographs, listen

BECOME A BENEFACTOR

Become a Benefactor and help us write the next chapter in the story of the Edinburgh International Book Festival. If you would like to discuss becoming a Benefactor, please email our Head of Development, Helen Chomczuk helen@edbookfest.co.uk to arrange for a chat. STAFF | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL Year round staff. Nick Barley – Director. Laura Aldis – Administrator. Amanda Barry – Head of Marketing & PR. Adam Barclay - Booksales Operations Manager. Lewis Camley – Marketing Manager. Helen Chomczuk – Head of Development. Noëlle Cobden – Communities Programme Director. Becca Di Francesco – Sponsorship Officer. MARIA STEPANOVA & SASHA DUGDALE WITH ALLAN LITTLE From Tue 25 May - In an era when everything from photographs to credit cards and notes can all be preserved and stored on our personal devices, what is the impact on our own brain’s ability to store

memories? Maria

OLGA RAVN & MARTIN AITKEN WITH HEATHER PARRY Lost in Space. Since she published her debut novel Celestine in 2015, Olga Ravn has come to be regarded as one of the most influential writers in contemporary Danish literature. In her new book, The Employees, she has crafted a small masterpiece; brilliantly translated into English by award-winning translator Martin Aitken, whose own work spans Danish and Norwegian literature. NEW REBUS TV SERIES IN DEVELOPMENT, WRITTEN BY ‘BLACK Popular crime novelist Ian Rankin confirmed that a new television adaptation of his Rebus novels is currently in development, to be written by Black Watch playwright Gregory Burke. “Last year a production company contacted me and said they would love to do Rebus properly, with six-eight-ten or more hour-long episodes,” Rankin told a sold-out audience at the Edinburgh International Book

ROBERT SEETHALER

Robert Seethaler is an Austrian living in Berlin and is the author of four previous novels. A Whole Life is his first work to be translated into English and is already a German bestseller, selling over 100,000 copies. The book has been translated from its original German by

Charlotte Collins.

EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL Book Festival Trading Ltd (SC246802) is a wholly owned subsidiary company of Edinburgh International Book Festival (a registered charity in Scotland SC010120) with its registered address at 5a Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, EH2 4DR. Powered by nopCommerce. 2020 ONLINE PROGRAMME LAUNCHED: KEEP THE CONVERSATION We’re bringing some of the world’s biggest names to the 2020 Book Festival. Double Booker Prize Winner Hilary Mantel discusses the final novel in her trilogy on Thomas Cromwell, Executive Vice President of the European Commission, Frans Timmermans, examines the European Green Deal with former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Arundhati Roy reflects on the implications of the global BOOKSHOPS | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL The Bookshop on George Street. Open daily from Saturday 3 to Friday 9 August from 9:30 to 5:00 & Saturday 10 to Monday 26 August from 9:30 to 22:30. Our smaller yet no less beautiful bookshop on George Street offers thousands of books by Festival authors and others across a wide range of subjects and genres and it has a brilliant showcase of PRESS | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL The 2021 Edinburgh International Book Festival will be based at Edinburgh College of Art on Lauriston Place. The Press Office will be on site for the duration of the Festival and open daily from 10.00am from Saturday 14 to Monday 30 August. In the meantime, we can be contacted on press@edbookfest.co.uk. JOBS | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL The Edinburgh International Book Festival is an equal opportunities employer, an Investor in People and a Real Living Wage employer. Our work is framed by a commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.

OUTRIDERS AFRICA

Outriders Africa. In 2017 the Edinburgh International Book Festival supported ten writers to travel on journeys across the Americas. This was Outriders – an ambitious exploration of the idea that in shifting, disorienting times, a writer can make a unique contribution to our understanding of the world, giving voice to untold stories and JOBS | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL Jobs at the Book Festival. The Edinburgh International Book Festival is an equal opportunities employer, an Investor in People and a Real Living Wage employer. Our work is framed by a commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. The Book Festival is a working environment where everyone is treated fairly, and our differences are celebrated WATCH OUR SCHOOL PROGRAMME LAUNCH ON DEMAND! If you missed our live online launch of our Baillie Gifford Schools Programme then never fear! You can now watch it on demand on the link below! So grab a glass of wine or a cup

ROBERT SEETHALER

Robert Seethaler is an Austrian living in Berlin and is the author of four previous novels. A Whole Life is his first work to be translated into English and is already a German bestseller, selling over 100,000 copies. The book has been translated from its original German by

Charlotte Collins.

PLAY WITH DIALECTS AND ACCENTS SAYS LEADING LINGUIST DAVID YOUNG children not be limited in the accents and dialects they use and hear, one of the UK’s leading linguists has said. David Crystal, speaking to a packed audience at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, said that playing with different accents and dialects was as much part of a child’s early development as anything else and trying to limit their exposure would be counterproductive. HOME | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVALSUPPORT USON THE ROADLEARNINGLEAVING A LEGACYPRESS RELEASESHOW TO BOOK 14–30 Aug 2021. Menu. Edinburgh International Book Festival. Next Festival: 14–30 Aug 2021. WHAT'S ON | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL The next Edinburgh International Book Festival will take place from 14-30 August 2021. The programme will be announced in early July. Sign up for our ebulletins or follow us on social media to hear announcements and updates. In the meantime, you can enjoy watching Festival events on the website, have a look at our Festival

photographs, listen

EVENTS LIST

The next Edinburgh International Book Festival will take place from 14-30 August 2021. The programme will be announced in late June. Sign up for our ebulletins or follow us on social media to hear announcements and updates. In the meantime, you can enjoy watching Festival events on the website, have a look at our Festival photographs, listen to EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL Book Festival Trading Ltd (SC246802) is a wholly owned subsidiary company of Edinburgh International Book Festival (a registered charity in Scotland SC010120) with its registered address at 5a Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, EH2 4DR. Powered by nopCommerce. 2021 BAILLIE GIFFORD SCHOOLS PROGRAMME Join us online this August for a rip-roaring programme of book events curated with learning at their heart. All Schools events are free to view, and you can take part by watching live online, or catching up at a time that works for you. All live events come with opportunities for pupils to ask authors questions and will be accompanied by a learning resource to help classes get the most out of LORNA GIBB | WRITERS | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL Lorna Gibb. An unusual, other-worldly love story from a highly acclaimed biographer. Lorna Gibb was born in North Lanarkshire and is now living in London, working as a university lecturer. She has had a variety of jobs which have taken her all over the world, most of which have involved writing in one form or another. She has previously

MEGAN BRADBURY

Megan Bradbury. The lives of four major figures from New York City’s history serve as powerful inspiration for debut author Megan Bradbury. Megan Bradbury was born in the United States and grew up in Britain. She graduated with an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and in 2012 she was awarded the Charles Pick Fellowship. GABRIELA CABEZÓN CÁMARA: THE FEMALE GAUCHO Gabriela Cabezón Cámara: The Female Gaucho. A leading figure in Argentine and Latin American literature, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara is one of the most prominent feminist intellectuals of the region. Her fourth novel, The Adventures of China Iron is shortlisted for this year’s International Booker Prize. A radical retelling of the 1872 KIRSTIN INNES: WHO IS CLIO CAMPBELL? Kirstin Innes: Who is Clio Campbell? Rarely does a novel set the Scottish literary scene abuzz in the way Scabby Queen has, counting amongst its fans figures as wide-ranging as Janice Galloway, Ian Rankin and Nicola Sturgeon. Sexy rock starlet, veteran political activist, symbol of a nation in decline — who really was Clio

Campbell?

TONGUE TWISTERS

20 21 This is a poem to get your audience joining in and up on their feet. Instructions to the audience: When you hear a word that ends in

an 'ock' sound

HOME | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVALSUPPORT USON THE ROADLEARNINGLEAVING A LEGACYPRESS RELEASESHOW TO BOOK 14–30 Aug 2021. Menu. Edinburgh International Book Festival. Next Festival: 14–30 Aug 2021. WHAT'S ON | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL The next Edinburgh International Book Festival will take place from 14-30 August 2021. The programme will be announced in early July. Sign up for our ebulletins or follow us on social media to hear announcements and updates. In the meantime, you can enjoy watching Festival events on the website, have a look at our Festival

photographs, listen

EVENTS LIST

The next Edinburgh International Book Festival will take place from 14-30 August 2021. The programme will be announced in late June. Sign up for our ebulletins or follow us on social media to hear announcements and updates. In the meantime, you can enjoy watching Festival events on the website, have a look at our Festival photographs, listen to EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL Book Festival Trading Ltd (SC246802) is a wholly owned subsidiary company of Edinburgh International Book Festival (a registered charity in Scotland SC010120) with its registered address at 5a Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, EH2 4DR. Powered by nopCommerce. 2021 BAILLIE GIFFORD SCHOOLS PROGRAMME Join us online this August for a rip-roaring programme of book events curated with learning at their heart. All Schools events are free to view, and you can take part by watching live online, or catching up at a time that works for you. All live events come with opportunities for pupils to ask authors questions and will be accompanied by a learning resource to help classes get the most out of LORNA GIBB | WRITERS | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL Lorna Gibb. An unusual, other-worldly love story from a highly acclaimed biographer. Lorna Gibb was born in North Lanarkshire and is now living in London, working as a university lecturer. She has had a variety of jobs which have taken her all over the world, most of which have involved writing in one form or another. She has previously

MEGAN BRADBURY

Megan Bradbury. The lives of four major figures from New York City’s history serve as powerful inspiration for debut author Megan Bradbury. Megan Bradbury was born in the United States and grew up in Britain. She graduated with an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and in 2012 she was awarded the Charles Pick Fellowship. GABRIELA CABEZÓN CÁMARA: THE FEMALE GAUCHO Gabriela Cabezón Cámara: The Female Gaucho. A leading figure in Argentine and Latin American literature, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara is one of the most prominent feminist intellectuals of the region. Her fourth novel, The Adventures of China Iron is shortlisted for this year’s International Booker Prize. A radical retelling of the 1872 KIRSTIN INNES: WHO IS CLIO CAMPBELL? Kirstin Innes: Who is Clio Campbell? Rarely does a novel set the Scottish literary scene abuzz in the way Scabby Queen has, counting amongst its fans figures as wide-ranging as Janice Galloway, Ian Rankin and Nicola Sturgeon. Sexy rock starlet, veteran political activist, symbol of a nation in decline — who really was Clio

Campbell?

TONGUE TWISTERS

20 21 This is a poem to get your audience joining in and up on their feet. Instructions to the audience: When you hear a word that ends in

an 'ock' sound

EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL Book Festival Trading Ltd (SC246802) is a wholly owned subsidiary company of Edinburgh International Book Festival (a registered charity in Scotland SC010120) with its registered address at 5a Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, EH2 4DR. Powered by nopCommerce. BOOKSHOPS | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL The Bookshop on George Street. Open daily from Saturday 3 to Friday 9 August from 9:30 to 5:00 & Saturday 10 to Monday 26 August from 9:30 to 22:30. Our smaller yet no less beautiful bookshop on George Street offers thousands of books by Festival authors and others across a wide range of subjects and genres and it has a brilliant showcase of MARIA STEPANOVA & SASHA DUGDALE WITH ALLAN LITTLE From Tue 25 May - In an era when everything from photographs to credit cards and notes can all be preserved and stored on our personal devices, what is the impact on our own brain’s ability to store

memories? Maria

BECOME A BENEFACTOR

Become a Benefactor and help us write the next chapter in the story of the Edinburgh International Book Festival. If you would like to discuss becoming a Benefactor, please email our Head of Development, Helen Chomczuk helen@edbookfest.co.uk to arrange for a chat. WATCH OUR SCHOOL PROGRAMME LAUNCH ON DEMAND! If you missed our live online launch of our Baillie Gifford Schools Programme then never fear! You can now watch it on demand on the link below! So grab a glass of wine or a cup 2020 ONLINE PROGRAMME LAUNCHED: KEEP THE CONVERSATION We’re bringing some of the world’s biggest names to the 2020 Book Festival. Double Booker Prize Winner Hilary Mantel discusses the final novel in her trilogy on Thomas Cromwell, Executive Vice President of the European Commission, Frans Timmermans, examines the European Green Deal with former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Arundhati Roy reflects on the implications of the global OLGA RAVN & MARTIN AITKEN WITH HEATHER PARRY Lost in Space. Since she published her debut novel Celestine in 2015, Olga Ravn has come to be regarded as one of the most influential writers in contemporary Danish literature. In her new book, The Employees, she has crafted a small masterpiece; brilliantly translated into English by award-winning translator Martin Aitken, whose own work spans Danish and Norwegian literature. STAFF | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL Year round staff. Nick Barley – Director. Laura Aldis – Administrator. Amanda Barry – Head of Marketing & PR. Adam Barclay - Booksales Operations Manager. Lewis Camley – Marketing Manager. Helen Chomczuk – Head of Development. Noëlle Cobden – Communities Programme Director. Becca Di Francesco – Sponsorship Officer. JOBS | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL Jobs at the Book Festival. The Edinburgh International Book Festival is an equal opportunities employer, an Investor in People and a Real Living Wage employer. Our work is framed by a commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. The Book Festival is a working environment where everyone is treated fairly, and our differences are celebrated WRITERS NETWORK SHOWCASE: SCOTLAND'S HERITAGE, THEN AND Jo Hunter & John Loughton: Power to the People When Jo Hunter established 64 Million Artists, an organisation that aims to encourage everybody in the UK to discover their creativity, little did she know that in 2020 she would have to dramatically change the way they reached people. The ‘COVID-19 piv Maggie O'Farrell: Giving New Life to Shakespeare’s Son ‘Hamnet and Hamlet are in fact HOME | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVALSUPPORT USON THE ROADLEARNINGLEAVING A LEGACYPRESS RELEASESHOW TO BOOK 14–30 Aug 2021. Menu. Edinburgh International Book Festival. Next Festival: 14–30 Aug 2021. HOME | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL 14–30 Aug 2021. Menu. Edinburgh International Book Festival. Next Festival: 14–30 Aug 2021. WHAT'S ON | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL The next Edinburgh International Book Festival will take place from 14-30 August 2021. The programme will be announced in early July. Sign up for our ebulletins or follow us on social media to hear announcements and updates. In the meantime, you can enjoy watching Festival events on the website, have a look at our Festival

photographs, listen

HOME | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL 2021 Baillie Gifford Schools Programme – full line-up announcedWednesday 26 May. Schools can join us online this August for a rip-roaring programme of book events curated with learning at their heart. All Schools events are free to view, and schools can take part by watching live online, or catching up at a time that works for them.

EVENTS LIST

The next Edinburgh International Book Festival will take place from 14-30 August 2021. The programme will be announced in early July. Sign up for our ebulletins or follow us on social media to hear announcements and updates. In the meantime, you can enjoy watching Festival events on the website, have a look at our Festival

photographs, listen

BECOME A BENEFACTOR

Become a Benefactor and help us write the next chapter in the story of the Edinburgh International Book Festival. If you would like to discuss becoming a Benefactor, please email our Head of Development, Helen Chomczuk helen@edbookfest.co.uk to arrange for a chat. MARIA STEPANOVA & SASHA DUGDALE WITH ALLAN LITTLE From Tue 25 May - In an era when everything from photographs to credit cards and notes can all be preserved and stored on our personal devices, what is the impact on our own brain’s ability to store

memories? Maria

OLGA RAVN & MARTIN AITKEN WITH HEATHER PARRY Lost in Space. Since she published her debut novel Celestine in 2015, Olga Ravn has come to be regarded as one of the most influential writers in contemporary Danish literature. In her new book, The Employees, she has crafted a small masterpiece; brilliantly translated into English by award-winning translator Martin Aitken, whose own work spans Danish and Norwegian literature. NEW REBUS TV SERIES IN DEVELOPMENT, WRITTEN BY ‘BLACK Popular crime novelist Ian Rankin confirmed that a new television adaptation of his Rebus novels is currently in development, to be written by Black Watch playwright Gregory Burke. “Last year a production company contacted me and said they would love to do Rebus properly, with six-eight-ten or more hour-long episodes,” Rankin told a sold-out audience at the Edinburgh International Book PLAY WITH DIALECTS AND ACCENTS SAYS LEADING LINGUIST DAVID YOUNG children not be limited in the accents and dialects they use and hear, one of the UK’s leading linguists has said. David Crystal, speaking to a packed audience at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, said that playing with different accents and dialects was as much part of a child’s early development as anything else and trying to limit their exposure would be counterproductive. HOME | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVALSUPPORT USON THE ROADLEARNINGLEAVING A LEGACYPRESS RELEASESHOW TO BOOK 14–30 Aug 2021. Menu. Edinburgh International Book Festival. Next Festival: 14–30 Aug 2021. HOME | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL 14–30 Aug 2021. Menu. Edinburgh International Book Festival. Next Festival: 14–30 Aug 2021. WHAT'S ON | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL The next Edinburgh International Book Festival will take place from 14-30 August 2021. The programme will be announced in early July. Sign up for our ebulletins or follow us on social media to hear announcements and updates. In the meantime, you can enjoy watching Festival events on the website, have a look at our Festival

photographs, listen

HOME | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL 2021 Baillie Gifford Schools Programme – full line-up announcedWednesday 26 May. Schools can join us online this August for a rip-roaring programme of book events curated with learning at their heart. All Schools events are free to view, and schools can take part by watching live online, or catching up at a time that works for them.

EVENTS LIST

The next Edinburgh International Book Festival will take place from 14-30 August 2021. The programme will be announced in early July. Sign up for our ebulletins or follow us on social media to hear announcements and updates. In the meantime, you can enjoy watching Festival events on the website, have a look at our Festival

photographs, listen

BECOME A BENEFACTOR

Become a Benefactor and help us write the next chapter in the story of the Edinburgh International Book Festival. If you would like to discuss becoming a Benefactor, please email our Head of Development, Helen Chomczuk helen@edbookfest.co.uk to arrange for a chat. MARIA STEPANOVA & SASHA DUGDALE WITH ALLAN LITTLE From Tue 25 May - In an era when everything from photographs to credit cards and notes can all be preserved and stored on our personal devices, what is the impact on our own brain’s ability to store

memories? Maria

OLGA RAVN & MARTIN AITKEN WITH HEATHER PARRY Lost in Space. Since she published her debut novel Celestine in 2015, Olga Ravn has come to be regarded as one of the most influential writers in contemporary Danish literature. In her new book, The Employees, she has crafted a small masterpiece; brilliantly translated into English by award-winning translator Martin Aitken, whose own work spans Danish and Norwegian literature. NEW REBUS TV SERIES IN DEVELOPMENT, WRITTEN BY ‘BLACK Popular crime novelist Ian Rankin confirmed that a new television adaptation of his Rebus novels is currently in development, to be written by Black Watch playwright Gregory Burke. “Last year a production company contacted me and said they would love to do Rebus properly, with six-eight-ten or more hour-long episodes,” Rankin told a sold-out audience at the Edinburgh International Book PLAY WITH DIALECTS AND ACCENTS SAYS LEADING LINGUIST DAVID YOUNG children not be limited in the accents and dialects they use and hear, one of the UK’s leading linguists has said. David Crystal, speaking to a packed audience at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, said that playing with different accents and dialects was as much part of a child’s early development as anything else and trying to limit their exposure would be counterproductive. HOME | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL 2021 Baillie Gifford Schools Programme – full line-up announcedWednesday 26 May. Schools can join us online this August for a rip-roaring programme of book events curated with learning at their heart. All Schools events are free to view, and schools can take part by watching live online, or catching up at a time that works for them. LOGIN | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL Please login or register for an account. You will need an account to book tickets, purchase memberships or make a donation. You can also sign up to receive regular CONTACT US | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL Box Office. Edinburgh International Book Festival Box Office PO BOX 23835 Edinburgh EH2 4WS. Email: boxoffice@edbookfest.co.uk Telephone: 0345 373 5888 (please note: the Box Office phone line is open from mid-late June until the end of the Festival and closed the rest of the

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JOBS | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL The Edinburgh International Book Festival is an equal opportunities employer, an Investor in People and a Real Living Wage employer. Our work is framed by a commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. LEARNING | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL This is your place to find information on Edinburgh International Book Festival’s events for pupils, teachers and education professionals, along with information on the educational events at the heart of our public programme and details of our outreach work. ——. Join us online from 23-31 August for a rip-roaring programme of book events WATCH OUR SCHOOL PROGRAMME LAUNCH ON DEMAND! If you missed our live online launch of our Baillie Gifford Schools Programme then never fear! You can now watch it on demand on the link below! So grab a glass of wine or a cup

OUTRIDERS AFRICA

In 2017 the Edinburgh International Book Festival supported ten writers to travel on journeys across the Americas. This was Outriders – an ambitious exploration of the idea that in shifting, disorienting times, a writer can make a unique contribution to our understanding of the world, giving voice to untold stories and providing new insights on contemporary geopolitical contexts. OLGA RAVN & MARTIN AITKEN WITH HEATHER PARRY Lost in Space. Since she published her debut novel Celestine in 2015, Olga Ravn has come to be regarded as one of the most influential writers in contemporary Danish literature. In her new book, The Employees, she has crafted a small masterpiece; brilliantly translated into English by award-winning translator Martin Aitken, whose own work spans Danish and Norwegian literature. INTIMACIES. EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL Buy Intimacies by Katie Kitamura from the Edinburgh Festival Online Bookshop. ISBN 9781787332003 MAGGIE O'FARRELL: GIVING NEW LIFE TO SHAKESPEARE’S SON ‘Hamnet and Hamlet are in fact the same name, entirely interchangeable in Stratford in the late sixteenth century.’ This epigraph to Maggie O’Farrell’s new novel, Hamnet, dispels any doubt that Shakespeare’s son and his most celebrated character are meaningfully linked. In a short but scorchingly emotional book, O’Farrell brings us into the 16th century world of Shakespeare’s HOME | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVALSUPPORT USON THE ROADLEARNINGLEAVING A LEGACYPRESS RELEASESHOW TO BOOKEDINBURGH BOOK FAIREDINBURGH FESTIVAL DATESEDINBURGH FESTIVAL WIKI 14–30 Aug 2021. Menu. Edinburgh International Book Festival. Next Festival: 14–30 Aug 2021. HOME | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVALEDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVALEDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVALEDINBURGH FESTIVAL DATESEDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 2019FESTIVALS IN EDINBURGH SCOTLANDWHEN IS THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL 14–30 Aug 2021. Menu. Edinburgh International Book Festival. Next Festival: 14–30 Aug 2021. WHAT'S ON | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVALEDINBURGH BOOK FAIRWHEN IS THE EDINBURGH FESTIVALEDINBURGH FESTIVAL DATESEDINBURGH FESTIVAL FRINGE 2020EDINBURGH FESTIVAL WIKI The next Edinburgh International Book Festival will take place from 14-30 August 2021. The programme will be announced in early July. Sign up for our ebulletins or follow us on social media to hear announcements and updates. In the meantime, you can enjoy watching Festival events on the website, have a look at our Festival

photographs, listen

EVENTS LIST

The next Edinburgh International Book Festival will take place from 14-30 August 2021. The programme will be announced in late June. Sign up for our ebulletins or follow us on social media to hear announcements and updates. In the meantime, you can enjoy watching Festival events on the website, have a look at our Festival photographs, listen to

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Look & Listen | Edinburgh International Book Festival. Audio & Video Photographs Writers Writing. How We Kept The Conversation Going in 2020. Freedom in four flavours by James Thornton We live both free and bound. There are many ways to map the contours of how we are free and where we are bound. Freedom in four flavours by James Thornton. LOGIN | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVALEDINBURGH BOOK FAIREDINBURGH FESTIVAL DATESEDINBURGH FESTIVAL FRINGE 2020EDINBURGH FESTIVAL WIKIWHEN IS THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL Please login or register for an account. You will need an account to book tickets, purchase memberships or make a donation. You can also sign up to receive regular

OUTRIDERS AFRICA

Outriders Africa. In 2017 the Edinburgh International Book Festival supported ten writers to travel on journeys across the Americas. This was Outriders – an ambitious exploration of the idea that in shifting, disorienting times, a writer can make a unique contribution to our understanding of the world, giving voice to untold stories and LORNA GIBB | WRITERS | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL Lorna Gibb. An unusual, other-worldly love story from a highly acclaimed biographer. Lorna Gibb was born in North Lanarkshire and is now living in London, working as a university lecturer. She has had a variety of jobs which have taken her all over the world, most of which have involved writing in one form or another. She has previously NEW REBUS TV SERIES IN DEVELOPMENT, WRITTEN BY ‘BLACKREBUS SERIESREBUS TV SHOW CASTREBUS TV SHOW EPISODESREBUS CAST SEASON 1REBUS EPISODE LISTREBUS SEASON 4 CAST Popular crime novelist Ian Rankin confirmed that a new television adaptation of his Rebus novels is currently in development, to be written by Black Watch playwright Gregory Burke. “Last year a production company contacted me and said they would love to do Rebus properly, with six-eight-ten or more hour-long episodes,” Rankin told a sold-out audience at the Edinburgh International Book

TONGUE TWISTERS

20 21 This is a poem to get your audience joining in and up on their feet. Instructions to the audience: When you hear a word that ends in

an 'ock' sound

HOME | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVALSUPPORT USON THE ROADLEARNINGLEAVING A LEGACYPRESS RELEASESHOW TO BOOKEDINBURGH BOOK FAIREDINBURGH FESTIVAL DATESEDINBURGH FESTIVAL WIKI 14–30 Aug 2021. Menu. Edinburgh International Book Festival. Next Festival: 14–30 Aug 2021. HOME | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVALEDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVALEDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVALEDINBURGH FESTIVAL DATESEDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 2019FESTIVALS IN EDINBURGH SCOTLANDWHEN IS THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL 14–30 Aug 2021. Menu. Edinburgh International Book Festival. Next Festival: 14–30 Aug 2021. WHAT'S ON | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVALEDINBURGH BOOK FAIRWHEN IS THE EDINBURGH FESTIVALEDINBURGH FESTIVAL DATESEDINBURGH FESTIVAL FRINGE 2020EDINBURGH FESTIVAL WIKI The next Edinburgh International Book Festival will take place from 14-30 August 2021. The programme will be announced in early July. Sign up for our ebulletins or follow us on social media to hear announcements and updates. In the meantime, you can enjoy watching Festival events on the website, have a look at our Festival

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The next Edinburgh International Book Festival will take place from 14-30 August 2021. The programme will be announced in late June. Sign up for our ebulletins or follow us on social media to hear announcements and updates. In the meantime, you can enjoy watching Festival events on the website, have a look at our Festival photographs, listen to

LOOK & LISTEN

Look & Listen | Edinburgh International Book Festival. Audio & Video Photographs Writers Writing. How We Kept The Conversation Going in 2020. Freedom in four flavours by James Thornton We live both free and bound. There are many ways to map the contours of how we are free and where we are bound. Freedom in four flavours by James Thornton. LOGIN | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVALEDINBURGH BOOK FAIREDINBURGH FESTIVAL DATESEDINBURGH FESTIVAL FRINGE 2020EDINBURGH FESTIVAL WIKIWHEN IS THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL Please login or register for an account. You will need an account to book tickets, purchase memberships or make a donation. You can also sign up to receive regular

OUTRIDERS AFRICA

Outriders Africa. In 2017 the Edinburgh International Book Festival supported ten writers to travel on journeys across the Americas. This was Outriders – an ambitious exploration of the idea that in shifting, disorienting times, a writer can make a unique contribution to our understanding of the world, giving voice to untold stories and LORNA GIBB | WRITERS | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL Lorna Gibb. An unusual, other-worldly love story from a highly acclaimed biographer. Lorna Gibb was born in North Lanarkshire and is now living in London, working as a university lecturer. She has had a variety of jobs which have taken her all over the world, most of which have involved writing in one form or another. She has previously NEW REBUS TV SERIES IN DEVELOPMENT, WRITTEN BY ‘BLACKREBUS SERIESREBUS TV SHOW CASTREBUS TV SHOW EPISODESREBUS CAST SEASON 1REBUS EPISODE LISTREBUS SEASON 4 CAST Popular crime novelist Ian Rankin confirmed that a new television adaptation of his Rebus novels is currently in development, to be written by Black Watch playwright Gregory Burke. “Last year a production company contacted me and said they would love to do Rebus properly, with six-eight-ten or more hour-long episodes,” Rankin told a sold-out audience at the Edinburgh International Book

TONGUE TWISTERS

20 21 This is a poem to get your audience joining in and up on their feet. Instructions to the audience: When you hear a word that ends in

an 'ock' sound

LOOK & LISTEN

Look & Listen | Edinburgh International Book Festival. Audio & Video Photographs Writers Writing. How We Kept The Conversation Going in 2020. Freedom in four flavours by James Thornton We live both free and bound. There are many ways to map the contours of how we are free and where we are bound. Freedom in four flavours by James Thornton.

PAST PROGRAMMES

2016 Public Programme. 2016 was a year of seismic change: an opportunity to rethink outmoded political systems and ideas. The Book Festival’s Imagine Better theme represented a conscious attempt to think about these changes as they happened: an opportunity to explore and debate the values that Scottish society will strive to uphold. CONTACT US | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL Box Office. Edinburgh International Book Festival Box Office PO BOX 23835 Edinburgh EH2 4WS. Email: boxoffice@edbookfest.co.uk Telephone: 0345 373 5888 (please note: the Box Office phone line is open from mid-late June until the end of the Festival and closed the rest of the

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EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL Book Festival Trading Ltd (SC246802) is a wholly owned subsidiary company of Edinburgh International Book Festival (a registered charity in Scotland SC010120) with its registered address at 5a Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, EH2 4DR. Powered by nopCommerce. JOBS | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL The Edinburgh International Book Festival is an equal opportunities employer, an Investor in People and a Real Living Wage employer. Our work is framed by a commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. 2020 ONLINE PROGRAMME LAUNCHED: KEEP THE CONVERSATION We’re bringing some of the world’s biggest names to the 2020 Book Festival. Double Booker Prize Winner Hilary Mantel discusses the final novel in her trilogy on Thomas Cromwell, Executive Vice President of the European Commission, Frans Timmermans, examines the European Green Deal with former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Arundhati Roy reflects on the implications of the global LORNA GIBB | WRITERS | EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL Lorna Gibb. An unusual, other-worldly love story from a highly acclaimed biographer. Lorna Gibb was born in North Lanarkshire and is now living in London, working as a university lecturer. She has had a variety of jobs which have taken her all over the world, most of which have involved writing in one form or another. She has previously

ROBERT SEETHALER

Robert Seethaler is an Austrian living in Berlin and is the author of four previous novels. A Whole Life is his first work to be translated into English and is already a German bestseller, selling over 100,000 copies. The book has been translated from its original German by

Charlotte Collins.

KIRSTIN INNES: WHO IS CLIO CAMPBELL? Kirstin Innes: Who is Clio Campbell? Rarely does a novel set the Scottish literary scene abuzz in the way Scabby Queen has, counting amongst its fans figures as wide-ranging as Janice Galloway, Ian Rankin and Nicola Sturgeon. Sexy rock starlet, veteran political activist, symbol of a nation in decline — who really was Clio

Campbell?

MAGGIE O'FARRELL: GIVING NEW LIFE TO SHAKESPEARE’S SON ‘Hamnet and Hamlet are in fact the same name, entirely interchangeable in Stratford in the late sixteenth century.’ This epigraph to Maggie O’Farrell’s new novel, Hamnet, dispels any doubt that Shakespeare’s son and his most celebrated character are meaningfully linked. In a short but scorchingly emotional book, O’Farrell brings us into the 16th century world of Shakespeare’s

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Sadly, because of the problems caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Edinburgh International Book Festival will not take place in August

this year.

This is not a decision we have taken lightly, but it has been reached in unison with Edinburgh’s other August festivals. Whether it’s our authors, audiences, supporters, staff and suppliers, or citizens and visitors to our wonderful city, the health of the people we exist for is of paramount importance. I am aware that the Book Festival is an important supporter of literary activity not only in Scotland but in all four corners of the earth. My heart goes out to everyone who will miss out this year: the writers, illustrators, artists, chairpeople, publishers and partners we’ve been working with so closely to create the 2020 programme; our staff, sponsors, funders and the loyal audiences whose ticket sales and book purchases are so crucial to the health of the UK literary sector. You _are _the Book Festival: without you it wouldn’t exist. We will be working hard in the coming months to ensure the Book Festival Charity survives this unprecedented time and is able to continue to provide a place where writers and readers can converse and

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We very much hope to be able to programme a series of online events to take place this summer. We don’t know yet if this will be possible, or what form it might take, but offering a place where writers can share their stories, perspectives and ideas with others is what we do, and we will be exploring the options available to us to help writers continue to connect with readers. Look after each other and stay safe. Nick Barley, Director Continue to the website * Box Office: boxoffice@edbookfest.co.uk or +44 (0)345 373 5888 * Administration: admin@edbookfest.co.uk or +44 (0)131 718 5666

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