Each summer Charlotte Square Gardens in the heart of Edinburgh is transformed into a tented village for the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
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his three week celebration of the written word is the largest of its kind in the world. Entry to the gardens is free. Here visitors can soak up the atmosphere, browse the bookshops, enjoy refreshments from the cafe or bar and choose from a programme of over 800 events.
Many events are free to attend, including daily readings, signings, workshops and children’s activities.
When? 13-29th August 2016
Where? Charlotte Square Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland
Who? 2016 TBA- Full programme June 9th
How much? Some events free. Other various prices.
Festival Website: www.edbookfest.co.uk
Twitter? @edbookfest
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Previous Festivals? Ben Okri - Michael Frayn - Teju Cole - Junot Díaz - Joseph Stiglitz - Michael Sandel - John Ashton - Jim Swire - Iain Banks - Mark Haddon - Michael Palin - Alex James - Joyce Carol Oates - Antony Beevor - John Lanchester - Jeanette Winterson - Tom Kitchin - Alasdair Gray - Carol Ann Duffy - Simon Armitage - Peter Popham - Simon Callow - Tam Dalyell - Kathy Lette - Maajid Nawaz - Hari Kunzru - David Vann - Robert Macfarlane - Ahdaf Soueif - Joan Bakewell - Peter Ackroyd - Sam Bourne - Lydia Cacho - Saul David - Alain de Botton - Yiyun Li - Harriet Walter - Peter Englund - Charles Ferguson - Patrick Gale - Nicci French - Wilbur Smith - Irvine Welsh - Jackie Kay - Pawel Huelle - Jeremy Paxman - Katherine Boo - China Miéville - Zadie Smith and many more.
Joyce Carol Oates, Lionel Shriver, and Amy Bloom, controversial cultural theorist David Shields and Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz., James Robertson, Nicholas Parsons, Candia McWilliam, Fay Weldon, Lydia Davis and Jo Shapcott, DBC Pierre and Roy Hattersley , Michel Faber, Alasdair Gray, Ali Smith, A L Kennedy (left) , Alan Warner, Roddy Doyle, Amy Bloom and David Vann,Michael Morpurgo, Andy Stanton, David Almond and Margo Lanagan,Fatima Bhutto, Vidal Sassoon, Garth Nix, Sophia Jansson, Louis de Bernières, Amartya Sen, Nicholas Parsons, Douglas Hurd in conversation with Alex Salmond, Carol Ann Duffy and Garry Trudeau and a few more.........
Previous festivals: Margaret Atwood, Vince Cable, Antony Beevor, Garrison Keillor, Richard Dawkins, David Sedaris, Tom Devine, Jeremy Paxman, Neil Gaiman, Carol Ann Duffy, Bahaa Taher, Ma Jian, Zoya Phan, Henning Mankel, Mathias Malzieu, Andrey Kurkov, William Boyd, A L Kennedy, Irvine Welsh, John Burnside, Michael Mansfield, David PeacGordon Brown, Sean Connery, Bill Paterson, Eoin Colfer, David Lodge, Alastair Reid, Louis de Bernières, Tariq Ali, Gavin Esler, Steven Berkoff, Jonathan Dimbleby
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