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If you missed our writers' brilliant performance at this year's #Edbookfest now's your chance to capture some of the magic! Click through to enjoy, including captioned video of each writer and your downloadable programme. THE FULL STORY - www.ecas.scot/ecas-at-the-...
Kirstin Anderson reading from the book
In a popular talk in the Edinburgh University Futures Institute, The Barlinnie Special Unit editor, Kirstin Anderson, took part in a joint session with poet Lady Unchained. More photos and full report available on our website.
https://loom.ly/80su9j4
#books #edbookfest #barlinnie #prison
An important discussion at #EdBookFest as Nicola Kelly, author of #AnywhereButHere and Surekha Davies (author of Humans) spoke to Yassmin Abdel-Magied about the toxic rhetoric humans apply to one another in order to exclude. How can we repair the polarisation of our fractured world?
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Newsletter: the #EdBookFest and looking ahead to monstery stuff in the fall! 💙📚 🗃
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Who do you picture when you imagine hikers?
@kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social (Pathfinding) and Roger Clough (Oldenland) had a fascinating discussion at #EdBookFest about how walking and writing can inform a way forward for life, whether you're in your older years, or in the maelstrom of motherhood.
Callum Easter and the Roulettes tearing it up at the book festival on Friday. Mesmerising as always, huge Suicide vibes with a hefty dollop of Stooges’ spirit.
@scotspostpunk.bsky.social
#callumeaster #edbookfest
A portrait of Kevin wearing a yellow shirt
Made the authors' wall at the Edinburgh International Book Festival #EdBookFest 📚
A green at sunset. Tall, Gothic revival buildings in a sandy grey along the back and right-hand side; slick modern buildings, deep grey along the left. Tents and parasols of all sorts, with people milling around.
A white badge on a blue and white lanyard placed against a white sheet and an orange border. The badge reads “Edinburgh International Book Festival” with a small logo of stripes. In the centre: Surekha Davies / Author.
Wonderful memories from my first #EdBookFest: dazed, amazed, thrilled, and wishing I'd stayed for much longer (next time!).
Photos from some of the events I attended - plus the badge, or what I call the “feel like a princess for the day” talisman! 1/n 💙📚 🗃
Spotted in @waterstones.bsky.social Edinburgh West End! @juleshoward.bsky.social's #InfiniteLife: An Epic New Story of Life on Earth
‘Insightful and evocative history of evolution and the crucial role played in it by the egg.’
Thank you Waterstones! 😍
#Bookshop #Edinburgh #EdBookFest #Science
Deborah Frances White in conversation with AC Grayling at the Edinburgh Book Festival
Laura Bates with (sorry, I didn’t get her name!) at the Edinburgh Book Festival
A double helping of #FeministFringe at #EdBookFest tonight, with Deborah Frances White & Laura Bates.
Both discussed the risks for women & children in poorly-regulated online spaces & the failures of a) providers to make their products safe and b) governments to legislate for better standards.
I'm scared to see how few men are attending the Edinburgh International Book Festival event with Laura Bates, about online misogyny. This is NOT a female problem. This is all our problem. #misogyny #LauraBates #EdBookFest
Laura Bates makes a valid point when she turns the spotlight on tech companies and big tech regulation to address the problem with harmful online content, instead of laying online safety on parents. #BigTech #OnlineSafety #LauraBates #EdBookFest
Laura Bates at Edinburgh International Book Festival on the need to act now to prevent a future where misogyny populates digital spaces even more than it already has. #misogyny #LauraBates #EdBookFest
What a night! 🤩 Our AMAZING writers performed their own work live at @edbookfest.bsky.social earlier this week. Here's just a wee glimpse...
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We're in the Discovery Zone @edbookfest.bsky.social! Showcasing how Global Citizenship Education can transform the way we teach + learn, running our Refuse, Repair, Rethink activity on consumption + waste and sharing a curated literacy resource list linking fiction to global issues 🌍
#EdBookFest
Corner-view of an imposing, sandy-grey Gothic revival building with long, narrow windows and conical-roofed, circular towers at the corners. A sunny day; some comfy seating in a courtyard at the right-hand edge.
Two women smiling and looking informal in front of a sandy-grey building with a glass entrance. The woman on the left has long straight, dark hair and glasses and is wearing a blue dress. The woman on the right (that’s me!) has shoulder-length, curly, dark hair and is wearing a pale blue and white striped shirt, tan trousers and a lop-sided blue lanyard with a name tag attached.
An Art Nouveau-esque tent entitled “Salon Perdu” at dusk, with a Gothic Revival building just visible behind it. The tent is mostly yellow, with brown and green trim, and twirly fonts and decorations. A rubber lies over most of the grass underfoot. An usher in a bright orange shirt and black trousers is seated in a chair, engrossed in a book (hurrah!), at the entrance.
My left hand is holding up a ticket to my Edinburgh International Book Festival at a jaunty angle. A sandy building is in the background. Above its grey entrance is a circular logo and “The University of Edinburgh / Edinburgh Futures Institute.”
More scenes from #EdBookFest, where I got to meet the novelist Madeleine Thien! Also a ticket to my event with @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social #Booksky
Award-winning historian Paul French has arrived in #Edinburgh for #EdBookFest!
He'll be talking to Isabel Hilton about his new book #WallisSimpson: Her Lotus Year in 1920s China TOMORROW at 15:30.
Get your tickets here:
www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
#History #Royals #NonFiction #Bookshop
Our colleague Dr @kir-anderson.bsky.social was discussing her recent book "The Barlinnie Special Unit: Art, Punishment and Innovation", the first detailed analysis of a unique time in the history of Scottish prisons. The book is available here: www.watersidepress.co.uk/books/barlin... #EdBookFest
Two books authored by Mike Berners-Lee: A Climate of Truth and How Bad are Bananas.
Thanks for dropping by the #EdBookFest Repair Sheds to see us @mikebernerslee.bsky.social (A Climate of Truth) who cycled up to #Edinburgh on a beautiful Grompton, aka gravel @bromptonbicycle.bsky.social 🚲🌍😍.
Mike’s talk: www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
Three women on a stage. Left to right, they are wearing: a red and patterned trouser; suit and cream sandals; a pale shirt and trousers, bright red shoes, and a black face mask; black top, white robe, and black and white patterened skirt, boots, and a headwrap. In the background is a pale purple screen with “Edinburgh International Book Festival” on the right, and the corner of a printed pamphlet and part of the auto-captioning visible at the top left.
Two women (one in pale shirt, other in red and patterned trouser suit), one masked, in front of a blue screen. Projected on screen is a medieval world map and a zoomed-in detail of said map, partly overlaying the map.
Dark-haired woman in a black face mask is engrossed in signing a pile of copies of a bright red book with a silvery mirror and black frame, entitled “Humans: A Monstrous History.” She sits at a desk covered in a black cloth. On the left is a brass-coloured desk lamp with a triangular shade.
Dark-haired woman in a black face mask looks up quizzically while signing a pile of copies of “Humans: A Monstrous History.” She sits at a desk covered in a black cloth. On the left is a brass-coloured desk lamp with a triangular shade.
Thrilling panel at @edbookfest.bsky.social with @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social! @yassmin.bsky.social was our chair & interlocutor.
For a 30% discount on HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY from @ucpress.bsky.social, 1/
💙📚 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #politics #HAMH #edbookfest
Kevin singing copies of his book Rainbow Trap. He is wearing a yellow shirt and with the author Keio Yoshida.
Kevin on stage at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
Had a great time sharing ideas from Rainbow Trap at the Edinburgh International Book Festival #EdBookFest
Thank you everyone who joined us to explore how queer lives intersect with policy, data and the law! ✨
@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
@bloomsburypol.bsky.social
Can't believe it but on Wednesday I'll be at #EdBookFest talking Mary, Queen of Scots w/ the amazing Rosemary Goring, Kate Anderson and Anna Groundwater! 👑📚
Thursday = Highlands & Clydesdales at Scone Horse Trials 🐎
Come along, the more friendly faces the better!
@omarabooks.bsky.social
A reminder that my Connecting Scotlands History #edbookfest event this morning is streamed online, pay what you like! Link below! 🏴🏴
You are the centre of your little world and I am of mine…
Hamish Hawk at the book festival last night with his inspired tribute to Ivor Cutler, a wonderful show full of love and nostalgia.
#edbookfest #ivorcutler #hamishhawk
Edinburgh Book Festival Repair Sheds with bicycles-down in foreground.
Wee Spoke Hub gift cards next to Edinburgh Book Festival programme booklets.
Two people seated, fixing a bicycle wheel.
We’re back at #edbookfest #repair #Edinburgh until 3:30pm Sunday 17th! Bring your bike for a free safety check, and today only 📣 claim a free 🚲 gift card when you visit us to learn to fix an inner tube. What’s not to like. 😃📚Repair Sheds schedule here:
www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
Three rows of brightly coloured books against a window. Outside is a white tent labelled “Courtyard Theatre “. Gothic revival buildings are in the background.
At #EdBookFest! Signed copies from yesterday’s amazing event are just inside the window of the festival bookshop. Get yours while stocks last! #skystorians #books #earlymodern #histsci
@nicolakellywrites.bsky.social's ANYWHERE BUT HERE should be required reading for anyone who wants to publish words about immigration or asylum seekers. She and I are speaking at the #edbookfest later today. www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
@hannahrudman.bsky.social Director for Business Development at Highlands Rewilding will be chairing a third event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on Wednesday the 20th August at 10:00
To book or find out more www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
#edbookfest
Photo of Kirsty Wark interviewing Nicola Sturgeon on stage.
Nicola Sturgeon at #edbookfest was on form, not getting an easy ride from Wark but handling it admirably. Many cheers and applause for her steadfast support of trans rights, which was nice.
"There are certain people in this world who spend a lot more time thinking about me than I spend thinking about them." Nicola Sturgeon, 2025
When people spend the better part of their days attacking you, don't give it more air.
#NicolaSturgeon #EdBookFest
