The Edinburgh International Book Festival kicks off today – and as it’s our local, we’re particularly excited about it.
FRA writers and illustrators appear at the following times – do go and hear them, if there are any tickets left!
Saturday 11th
10.30 – Vivian French – Fairy Tale Feast
16.45 – Emily Dodd – Powerful Forces
18.30 – L J MacWhirter – Feisty Fantasy
Sunday 12th
12.15 – Iain Mackintosh with Alexander McCall Smith – All Aboard!
15.15 – Eilidh Muldoon – Colouring Charlies Rennie Mackintosh
Monday 13th
10.30 – Gill Arbuthnott – The Boy who Went to War
Tuesday 14th
10.00 – Eilidh Muldoon with Jill Calder, Chris Haughton and David Telling – The Lives of Illustrators
10.30 – Lari Don – The Legend of the Loch Ness Monster
Friday 17th
14.00 – Chae Strathie – Surviving Ancient Egypt
16.30 – Barry Hutchison – Magnetic Mooing Mayhem
Saturday 18th
10.30 – Barry Hutchison – New York Nightmares
12.15 – Lari Don, with Candy Gourlay and Elizabeth Wein – Freedom to Read, Freedom to Write
Sunday 19th
14.00 – Sue Purkiss with Emma Carroll – Secret Searching
Friday 24th
18.30 – Cathy Forde – Adapting Fat Boy Swim
Saturday 25th
14.45 – Barroux – How Many Trees?
16.30 – Vivian French with Petr Horacek – Improvising Stories
Sunday 26th
10.00 – Barroux with Michael Morpurgo – War Force
Monday 27th
10.00 – Kasia Matyjaszek – Pick up a Pencil
11.45 – Lynne Rickards – Rowan the red Squirrel
17.00 – Tom Morgan- Jones with Philip Ardagh – Medieval Mayhem
Many of our authors and illustrators are also appearing in the extensive schools programme – but those events are already sold out.
We wish everybody a very happy – and dry – time at the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2018!
Tickets are for sale on site, and via the website – www.edbookfest.co.uk
