Books & Literature in United Kingdom- Page 17

Spartans: The Way We See It

Join us to celebrate a collection of amazing work from young people reflecting their experiences of the world and their place in it.

Edinburgh Futures Institute, Edinburgh

Russell Tovey: Starlings

A leading light on our screens for decades, Russell Tovey is known for roles in everything from The History Boys to American Horror Story.

Edinburgh Futures Institute, Edinburgh

Tracy Borman: The House of Boleyn

In her novel The House of Boleyn, Tracy Borman, Chief Historian at Historic Royal Palaces, brings the Boleyns’ calculated rise and swift fall to vivid life in t…

Edinburgh Futures Institute, Edinburgh

Non-Fiction Reporting: A Workshop with Sally Hayden

Orwell Prize-winning journalist Sally Hayden (This is Also a Love Story) leads you through how to turn non-fiction reporting into a book, in a workshop that’ll…

Edinburgh Futures Institute, Edinburgh

The Provocateurs: Your Mind's World / Molecular Matchmaking

The Provocateurs: Your Mind's World / Molecular Matchmaking at The Stand Comedy Club II, Edinburgh

The Stand Comedy Club II, Edinburgh

Scott Anderson: King of Kings

In 1978, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, entertained US President Jimmy Carter in Tehran where they congratulated themselves on a peaceful period in bo…

Edinburgh Futures Institute, Edinburgh

Sharath Jeevan OBE – Meek Inheritance: Are Me and My Kids Doomed?

Sharath Jeevan OBE – Meek Inheritance: Are Me and My Kids Doomed? at Panmure House, Edinburgh

Panmure House, Edinburgh

Scottish Comedy Legends: Sanjeev Kohli

Scottish Comedy Legends: Sanjeev Kohli at The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, Edinburgh

The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, Edinburgh

Prue Leith: Being Old and Learning to Love It

Only the lucky grow old – so why is the thought of aging filled with fear and judgement for so many?

Edinburgh Futures Institute, Edinburgh

Talk: The Grip of the Ice

To mark 125 years since Discovery’s first Antarctic expedition, historian of exploration, Ed Armston-Sheret tells the remarkable story of Scott and Shackleton’s…

Discovery Point & RRS Discovery, Dundee

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Alex Hyde & Lisa Tuttle: Artist Turned Object

When art and obsession coalesce, the blurred lines can quickly become sinister. Alex Hyde’s Exhibition follows a photographer drawn into the intoxicating world…

Edinburgh Futures Institute, Edinburgh

The Provocateurs: AI and Economics / Midwife Crones Fight Back

The Provocateurs: AI and Economics / Midwife Crones Fight Back at The Stand Comedy Club II, Edinburgh

The Stand Comedy Club II, Edinburgh

Hannah Lavery, Jennifer Wong & Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe: Migratory Patterns

Jennifer Wong’s Light Year is a moving, generation-spanning examination of family history.

Edinburgh Futures Institute, Edinburgh

You Choose Party Time with Nick Sharratt & Pippa Goodhart

Join us for an afternoon of party-themed fun as we celebrate the release of you choose party time with the creators of the you choose series, Nick Sharratt and…

Steyning Bookshop, Steyning

ScotlandsFest: Art Without Borders – Demarco’s Europe

ScotlandsFest: Art Without Borders – Demarco’s Europe at St Columba's-by-the-Castle, Edinburgh

St Columba's-by-the-Castle, Edinburgh

Mariana Mazzucato: The Common Good Economy

What if our economy served the whole planet, and not just the few? An acclaimed Professor of Economics and policy advisor, honoured by both the Pope and King fo…

Edinburgh Futures Institute, Edinburgh

Hoda Barakat, Alycia Pirmohamed & Ece Temelkuran: Hope when Home is Lost

How does our understanding of the ideas of ‘home’ and ‘belonging’ shift in a war-torn and warming world?

Edinburgh Futures Institute, Edinburgh

Ways of Seeing Food: A Writing Workshop with Tamar Adler

Tamar Adler – author of An Everlasting Meal and Feast on Your Life – is adored among chefs and home cooks alike for her rhapsodic writing about food.

Elliott's, Edinburgh

First Editions: International Reporting

Start your day with the facts. High quality, thorough, trustworthy journalism has never been more important in helping us understand the world as it really is –…

Edinburgh Futures Institute, Edinburgh

ScotlandsFest: No Scotland No Party!

ScotlandsFest: No Scotland No Party! at St Columba's-by-the-Castle, Edinburgh

St Columba's-by-the-Castle, Edinburgh

Len Pennie & Paul-Leonard Morgan: Delusions

This breathtaking collaboration between acclaimed poet Len Pennie and BAFTA-winning composer Paul Leonard-Morgan, which premiered at 2026’s Celtic Connections f…

Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh

Andrey Kurkov

A troop of Red Army soldiers has disappeared without a trace while visiting the Halytska bathhouse, their abandoned boots and uniforms the only proof that they…

Topping & Company Booksellers, St Andrews

Steve Mason: Failure is Always an Option

Edinburgh’s Beta Band had the world at their feet, with Hollywood’s seal of approval through the film version of Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity, and praise from No…

Edinburgh Futures Institute, Edinburgh

Juno Dawson: Survival Show

Ready for the performance of your life? In Juno Dawson’s new YA novel, Survival Show, a young woman enters the most watched reality TV show in the world in orde…

Edinburgh Futures Institute, Edinburgh

YA Book Prize 2026: Discover the Winner

Exciting news! We’re collaborating with The Bookseller again to host 2026's YA Book Prize award ceremony.

Edinburgh Futures Institute, Edinburgh

Mieko Kawakami: Sisters in Yellow

Superstar Mieko Kawakami is one of the driving forces behind the explosion of popularity of Japanese fiction in the UK; the seven top selling translated authors…

Edinburgh Futures Institute, Edinburgh

Feast on Your Life: A Table Talk with Tamar Adler

Feast on Your Life sums up Tamar Adler’s philosophy: that cooking can be a devotion, a way to bring life-affirming joy to even the most mundane days.

Elliott's, Edinburgh

Missouri Williams: The Vivisectors

Missouri Williams’ work holds up a mirror to the many contradictions that make up our humanity.

Edinburgh Futures Institute, Edinburgh

Fiona Mozley: Awake, Awake

When Mary begins remembering things that can’t be real, she must reconnect with friends long since scattered to reconstruct the truth.

Edinburgh Futures Institute, Edinburgh

Louis de Bernières: Smelling of Rooks

Known for his tender and spirited writing, Louis de Bernières has built a reputation as one of the UK’s finest novelists.

Edinburgh Futures Institute, Edinburgh

Matt Haig: The Midnight Train

Few authors take residence inside a reader’s heart like Matt Haig, who follows up his multi-million copy bestseller The Midnight Library with a new story set in…

Edinburgh Futures Institute, Edinburgh

Jacek Dukaj & Ursula Phillips: Ice

In Jacek Dukaj's Ice, the Tunguska asteroid has plunged the world into eternal winter, freezing not just the land but history itself.

Edinburgh Futures Institute, Edinburgh

Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Radical Listening

From his 2012 documentary, The Whole Truth, to his 2019 Turner Prize-winning installation, Walled Unwalled, visionary artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan makes use of so…

Edinburgh Futures Institute, Edinburgh

Graphic Novels with Lizzy Stewart

Lizzy Stewart (author-illustrator of the breathtaking, genre-defying books The Wreck, Alison, and Walking Distance) introduces you today to the world of graphic…

Edinburgh Futures Institute, Edinburgh

Lucy Ash: Russia’s Church from Pagans to Putin

Moving away from the atheism of the 20th century’s Soviet Union, Putin’s Russia has granted the ancient Russian Orthodox Church great power.

Edinburgh Futures Institute, Edinburgh

Jeremy Vine: Turn the Dial on Death

We’re in Sidmouth on Devon’s south coast, usually the picture of seaside bliss... until a local doctor is found dead in the woods.

Edinburgh Futures Institute, Edinburgh

Ana Kinsella & Lizzy Stewart: Feelings and Faultlines

In Frida Slattery as Herself – Ana Kinsella’s absorbing love letter to artistic expression – an actor and director walk a messy line between collaboration and c…

Edinburgh Futures Institute, Edinburgh

The Front List: Lyse Doucet

As the BBC’s Chief International Correspondent, Lyse Doucet has witnessed 30 years of seismic events at dangerously close quarters.

McEwan Hall, Edinburgh

Five Tastes: A Table Talk with Fuchsia Dunlop

Fuchsia Dunlop has long been both master and student of Sichuan cuisine, and in Five Tastes – which she launches with us this evening – she breaks down exactly…

Elliott's, Edinburgh

All Star Poetry

Pin-drop silence, riotous laughter, and back-of-the-neck goosebumps are just a few common side effects from our poetry evenings, and it doesn’t get much better…

Edinburgh Futures Institute, Edinburgh

The Provocateurs: Superhero Porn / Hookers for Jesus

The Provocateurs: Superhero Porn / Hookers for Jesus at The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, Edinburgh

The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, Edinburgh

Caden Armstrong, Nadine Aisha Jassat & Ella Risbridger: Love on the Brain

Slow burns and bodice rippers, unrequited yearning and enemies-to-lovers: romantic fiction contains whole universes of passion, pain, and stomach-flipping chemi…

Edinburgh Futures Institute, Edinburgh

ScotlandsFest: A Scottish Football Odyssey

ScotlandsFest: A Scottish Football Odyssey at St Columba's-by-the-Castle, Edinburgh

St Columba's-by-the-Castle, Edinburgh

ScotlandsFest: Choose Life Choose Leith – Trainspotting on Location

ScotlandsFest: Choose Life Choose Leith – Trainspotting on Location at St Columba's-by-the-Castle, Edinburgh

St Columba's-by-the-Castle, Edinburgh

Sally Hayden & Roxani Krystalli: War and Peace

In This is Also a Love Story, Sally Hayden – Orwell Prize-winning journalist and author of My Fourth Time, We Drowned – offers a staggering account of human kin…

Edinburgh Futures Institute, Edinburgh

Scottish Comedy Legends: Jack Docherty

Scottish Comedy Legends: Jack Docherty at The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, Edinburgh

The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, Edinburgh

House of YA x Edinburgh International Book Festival Spiegeltent Takeover

House of YA is back! They’ll be taking over the Spiegeltent again this year with another selection of the hottest titles in Young Adult fiction, all wrapped in…

Edinburgh Futures Institute, Edinburgh

Sarah Howe, Rachel Long & Sarah Stewart: Lyric Memory

Poetry has the capacity to say what other forms cannot. In Sarah Howe’s Foretokens, for example, the T. S.

Edinburgh Futures Institute, Edinburgh