Yesterday at the Book Festival was full with families and small children dancing along to SprogRock on the outdoor stage, Emma Dabiri explored issues of race and racism, Gavin Esler & Samir Puri discussed Brexit and the future of Britain with Ruth Wishart.
EVENTS TODAY – Sunday 29 August
(Events marked ** will be shown on the Big Screen in the Book Festival Courtyard at Edinburgh College of Art)
09:30 Drawalong with Lucy Farfort (Facebook)
10:00 Gordon Brown: Global Crisis, Global Solutions** (Watch here)
11:15 Lucy Farfort: Build Your Own Magical Den (Watch here)
11:30 Tom de Freston & Kiran Millwood Hargrave: In Search of Sharks** (Watch here)
13:00 Charlotte Higgins: Why Greek Myths Still Matter** (Watch here)
14:15 Ming Chen, Wah Chen & Carmen Vela: One Day We Had to Run** (Watch here)
14:30 Arifa Akbar: The Complexity of Sisterhood (Watch here)
16:00 Abir Mukherjee with Val McDermid, pictured: Calcutta on the Brink** (Watch here)
17:15 Katie Kitamura: Familiarity and Contempt (Watch here)
17:30 Maggie Nelson: The Many Meanings of Freedom** (Watch here)
19:00 Kazuo Ishiguro: On Being Human** (Watch here)
Supported by the Hawthornden Literary Retreat
20:15 Charles Yu: Smashing Hollywood Stereotypes (Watch here)
20:30 Michael Pedersen presents Good Grief!** (Watch here)
EVENTS TOMORROW – Monday 30 August
The late William McIlvanney at Edinburgh Book Festival. Picture by Bill Heaney
09:30 Drawalong with Madeline Pinkerton (Facebook)
10:00 Philip Ardagh: Puss in Boots**
10:15 Be the Change with Gina Martin
11:30 Can Artists Still Break the Rules? Revisiting Strategy: Get Arts**
13:00 Leone Ross: All the Flavours of Love**
13:15 Roisin Kiberd & Lauren Oyler: Online and Disconnected
14:30 Ian Rankin, pictured, William McIlvanney – The Last Word **
16:00 Wellbeing and Resilience: Imagining a Better Future
16:15 Helena Merriman: Undermining the Berlin Wall**
17:30 Playing with Books: The Yellow Door by Kathleen Jamie**
19:00 Alicia Garza: Building Moments Into Movements**
19:15 Hari Kunzru: The Breakdown of Truth
20:30 Douglas Stuart with Nicola Sturgeon: Welcome Home, Shuggie Bain**
(Events marked ** will be shown on the Big Screen in the Book Festival Courtyard at Edinburgh
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Shuggie Bain author Douglas Stuart.