Edinburgh International Book Festival

Alistair Moffat: Scotland in a Lifetime
Tue 19 Aug 12:45 - 13:45
Live streaming from Edinburgh International Book Festival
This event will be held in our new first floor creative learning space (upstairs).

Prolific social historian and Edinburgh favourite, Alistair Moffat returns to discuss To See Ourselves: A Personal History of Scotland Since 1950. Through this latest work, Moffat chronicles the radical changes seen in every aspect of Scottish life over the last 75 years: from politics and society to the arts and environment. In this fascinating conversation, Moffat shares recollections of events and eyewitness accounts. Expect poignant reminiscence and insightful opinions.

Categories: History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Politics & Society

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Andrey Kurkov: Our Daily War
Tue 19 Aug 17:00 - 18:00
Live streaming from Edinburgh International Book Festival
This event will be held in our new first floor creative learning space (upstairs).

One of Ukraine's most celebrated post-Soviet novelists, Andrey Kurkov is renowned for his surreal, satirical fiction, including Death and the Penguin and political thriller series, the Kyiv Mysteries (the first instalment of which is 2024 International Booker-longlisted, The Silver Bone). Former President of PEN Ukraine, Kurkov also writes with incredible passion and insight on the invasion of his home country. Today, hear Kurkov unpacking his vivid and defiant memoir, Our Daily War, with Guardian journalist, Charlotte Higgins.

Categories: Memoir, Non-fiction, Politics & Society

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Andy Wightman: Who Owns Scotland?
Wed 20 Aug 15:00 - 16:00
Live streaming from Edinburgh International Book Festival
This event will be held in our new first floor creative learning space (upstairs).

Ten years ago Andy Wightman – a former Member of the Scottish Parliament with the Scottish Greens and a tireless campaigner over issues around land ownership and reform in Scotland – published The Poor Had No Lawyers, a definitive investigation into just who owns the country’s urban and rural land, and how they came to acquire it. Now, with an updated edition just published, he joins us to discuss a topic no less urgent today. Chaired by Ruth Wishart

Categories: Non-fiction, Politics & Society

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Gabriel Weston: An Alternative Anatomy
Fri 22 Aug 11:45 - 12:45
Live streaming from Edinburgh International Book Festival
This event will be held in our new first floor creative learning space (upstairs).

Aged 20, surgeon Gabriel Weston enrolled in a pioneering degree programme encouraging arts students to become doctors. She quickly realised that by presenting organs in isolation, separate from the bodies they exist in, anatomical textbooks were missing a holistic view of illness. In her insightful new book, Alive, Weston delves into the role our organs play on our emotions, highlighting the importance of treating the whole patient. She joins us to discuss our fragile, frightening, miraculous bodies. Chaired by Kirsty Lang.

Categories: Health & Wellbeing, Non-fiction

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Generously sponsored by Healthest Town Aberfeldy
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Naga Munchetty: It’s (Not) All In Your Head
Sat 23 Aug 17:00 - 16:00
Live streaming from Edinburgh International Book Festival
This event will be held in our new first floor creative learning space (upstairs).

Women’s healthcare is in need of a revolution, and BBC broadcaster Naga Munchetty is ready to fight. In It’s Probably Nothing, she explores the difficulties women still face in getting diagnosed and treated, and provides actionable lessons to help women advocate for themselves in medical settings. She talks with Devi Sridhar about the fundamental flaws in our healthcare system and the provocative conversations that inspired her book.

Supported by the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities.

Categories: Health & Wellbeing, Non-fiction, Politics & Society

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Generously sponsored by Healthest Town Aberfeldy
healthiesttown.org

Chloe Dalton: Raising Hare
Sun 24 Aug 11:45 - 12:45
Live streaming from Edinburgh International Book Festival
This event will be held in our new first floor creative learning space (upstairs).

Suffering from burnout, political adviser Chloe Dalton retreated from the big city to the English countryside. There she found a seemingly abandoned leveret, or baby hare, and took it home. Longlisted for 2025’s Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction, Raising Hare is the heartwarming story of how this tiny creature changed Dalton’s life, and how care can transcend the boundaries between humans and animals. Dalton joins us to discuss her magical encounter and our Festival theme of Repair. Chaired by Alex Clark.

Categories: Climate & Environment, Memoir, Non-fiction

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