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Edinburgh Events and Reading Groups

We're delighted to bring our all-year-round Literary Festival to our bookshop in Edinburgh. We have a packed calendar which ranges from readings in the bookshop to evenings with literary stars.

Susan Tomes

Susan Tomes

Tuesday 19th March, 7.30pm

We are lucky to be welcoming concert pianist and writer Susan Tomes to Edinburgh to celebrate her latest exquisite book of music history, Women and the …

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Of This and Other Worlds - Science Fiction Reading Group

Wednesday 20th March, 7.30pm

Heading into 2024, we’ll be continuing our Fantasy and Science Fiction reading group, exploring worlds both fantastical and horrific, monstrous and utopian. Whether your interests lie …

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Heather Parry

Heather Parry

Thursday 21st March, 7.30pm

We're thrilled to be welcoming back to the bookshop a bookseller favourite and beloved local writer, Heather Parry. From the mind that brought the enthrallingly horrifying …

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Joseph Hone

Joseph Hone

Monday 25th March, 7.30pm

Who better than Joseph Hone, historian and book enthusiast, to introduce us to the thrilling history of a 1930s literary crime! Join us this spring as …

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Peter Frankopan

Peter Frankopan

Monday 25th March, 7.30pm

N.B. Please note that the change from the original date of 28th March. If you booked under the original date and can no longer make it, …

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Simon Heffer

Tuesday 26th March, 7.30pm

This spring we are looking forward to welcoming back historian and Telegraph columnist Simon Heffer for Sing As We Go: Britain Between the Wars.Sing As We …

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Christopher Harding on the Western Fascination with the East

Wednesday 27th March, 7.30pm

With great joy we welcome Christopher Harding to the bookshop for a discussion of his latest work on Asian History, The Light of Asia: A History …

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Fernanda Eberstadt

Fernanda Eberstadt: Stories of the Body Militant

Thursday 28th March, 7.30pm

We are absolutely thrilled to be welcoming American writer Fernanda Eberstadt to celebrate the publication of her latest subversive book, Bite Your Friends. In this extraordinary, …

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Grace Curtis

Grace Curtis

Friday 29th March, 7.30pm

Grace Curtis is a rising star in the world of Science Fiction & Fantasy writing. Already touted by the likes of Hannah Kaner, Amie Kaufmann, Tamsyn …

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Stuart Turton

Stuart Turton

Wednesday 3rd April, 7.30pm

Did you, like us and 1,000,000 other readers, adore Stuart Turton's The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle? If so, you have a treat coming your way …

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Madhu Murgia

Madhumita Murgia: Living in the shadow of AI

Thursday 4th April, 7.30pm

It is with great excitement that we welcome the Financial Times' inaugural Artificial Intelligence editor, Madhumita Murgia. After writing about AI for Wired and the FT, …

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Justine Firnhaber-Baker

Justine Firnhaber-Baker

Friday 5th April, 7.30pm

About House of LiliesThe Capetians rank among the most influential royal families in medieval European history. From small beginnings around Paris in the late tenth century, …

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Rosie Hewlett

Rosie Hewlett: Retelling Medea

Monday 8th April, 7.30pm

We are thrilled to welcome the magnificent Rosie Hewlett to chat about her first self-published novel, Medea. Medea is an unmissable new addition to the canon …

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Percival Everett

Percival Everett

Tuesday 9th April, 7.30pm

It is a profound honour to be a stop on Percival Everett's first ever UK tour. Following on from his gruesomely hilarious, Booker-shortlisted novel The Trees, …

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Nicky Hayes' Little History of Psychology

Wednesday 10th April, 7.30pm

Calling all fans of Yale's Little History series! Join us for an evening at the bookshop with President of the British Psychological Society, Nicky Hayes, for …

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Jenny Kleeman

Jenny Kleeman

Thursday 11th April, 7.30pm

If life has a price, who gets to live and who is left to die in world of finite resources?Join us for an evening with journalist, …

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A Deeply Unserious Wine Tasting with Hannah Crosbie

Monday 15th April, 7.30pm

Join us in the bookshop for a deeply unserious - yet undoubtedly delicious - wine tasting with the wonderful Hannah Crosbie.Hannah comes to the bookshop to …

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Jonathan Silvertown

Jonathan Silvertown: A Cooperative History of Life

Tuesday 16th April, 7.30pm

Jonathan Silvertown is an Honorary Professor of Evolutionary Ecology at Edinburgh University's Institute of Evolutionary Biology.He joins us at the bookshop to talk about his latest …

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An Evening with Simple Minds' Derek Forbes

Wednesday 17th April, 7.30pm

Join us in the bookshop for an evening with Simple Minds legend Derek Forbes.Known for his iconic spine-rattling riffs, Derek Forbes has established himself on the …

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Susan Stokes-Chapman

Susan Stokes-Chapman

Thursday 18th April, 7.30pm

We first welcomed Susan Stokes-Chapman to the bookshop in Spring 2022. Back then, we celebrated her marvellous #1 Sunday Times bestselling debut, Pandora. This time round, …

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A British Museum Lecture: Richard Abdy on Life in the Roman Army

Friday 19th April, 7.30pm

N.B. This event is now taking place at Greenside Church (1b Royal Terrace, EH7 5AB). All other details remain unchanged.The British Museum comes to Edinburgh!This evening …

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Nick Bano

Nick Bano: How to Solve the Housing Crisis

Monday 22nd April, 7.30pm

Nick Bano is an author and Barrister who specialises in representing homeless people, residential occupiers, and destitute and migrant households. He joins us in the bookshop …

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Agnes Arnold-Foster

Agnes Arnold Forster: A History of Nostalgia

Tuesday 23rd April, 7.30pm

Agnes Arnold-Forster is a Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Agnes joins us at the bookshop to discuss her debut trade publication, Nostalgia: A History …

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Sinead Gleeson

Sinéad Gleeson

Wednesday 24th April, 7.30pm

'Passionate, wild, hugely atmospheric' DAVID NICHOLLS'Wild, elemental... I adored it' LOUISE KENNEDY'Intelligent, probing' MAGGIE O'FARRELL'Wonderfully gothic ... [a] cracking debut' DOUGLAS STUARTSinéad Gleeson is a literary …

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Angela Harding

Angela Harding: Reimagining Isabella Tree's 'Wilding'

Thursday 25th April, 7.30pm

Angela Harding - author, printmaker and illustrator - is a master of her forms. Beloved for her linocuts and screenprints that celebrate the beauty and wilderness …

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Caroline Crampton

Caroline Crampton on the History of Hypochondria

Friday 26th April, 7.30pm

Caroline Crampton - celebrated author of The Way to the Sea: The Forgotten Histories of the Thames Estuary - comes to Edinburgh this April to present …

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DanielSusskind

Daniel Susskind

Tuesday 30th April, 7.30pm

At this time of uncertainty about growth and its value, award-winning economist Daniel Susskind has written an essential examination of the very concept of growth itself. …

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Kim Sherwood

Kim Sherwood

Wednesday 1st May, 7.30pm

Martinis on May Day to celebrate the newest Double-O novel from Kim Sherwood!Join us on the 1st of May for the Scottish Launch of A Spy …

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Nathan Abrams

Nathan Abrams on Kubrick

Monday 6th May, 7.30pm

Everyone knows the name Stanley Kubrick, but how many of us know the man behind the camera? Enigmatic, aloof, and heralded as a cinematic genius, Kubrick …

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CatherinePrasifka

Catherine Prasifka

Tuesday 7th May, 7.30pm

We are so thrilled to welcome Catherine Prasifka to the bookshop this May for her new book This is How You Remember It. Catherine's debut novel …

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Sarah Perry

Sarah Perry

Thursday 9th May, 7.30pm

Sarah Perry, beloved author of The Essex Serpent and Melmoth, returns in 2024 with her finest novel to date, Enlightenment. Described by Sean Hewitt as a …

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Catherine Coldstream

Catherine Coldstream on Her Life as a Contemplative Nun

Tuesday 14th May, 7.30pm

This May, we are excited to welcome Catherine Coldstream to the Bookshop to talk about her debut memoir Cloistered which follows her experience of becoming — …

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David Mitchell

David Mitchell: Cloud Atlas, 20 Years On

Wednesday 15th May, 7.30pm

When it was first published in 2004, The Guardian called Cloud Atlas ‘a remarkable book’, adding ‘there won't be a bigger, bolder novel this year. With …

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Ingrid Persaud

Ingrid Persaud

Thursday 16th May, 7.30pm

Ingrid Persaud is the Costa First Novel Award winning author of Love After Love: a remarkably sensitive exploration of familial love, dissolution, and renewal. It is …

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Juano Diaz

Juano Diaz

Friday 17th May, 7.30pm

Juano Diaz' Slum Boy is a literary sensation in the making. Already winning the hearts of Andrew O'Hagan and Douglas Stuart, Slum Boy is an endlessly …

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Caroline Eden

Monday 20th May, 7.30pm

We cannot wait to host Caroline Eden, friend of the bookshop and author of the wonderful, award-winning books, Samarkand, Black Sea and Red Sands. Caroline will …

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Nicolas Padamsee

Nicolas Padamsee: An Observer Best Debut Novelist for 2024

Tuesday 21st May, 7.30pm

Nicolas Padamsee's England is Mine is an explosive novels about one of Britain's most pressing issues: violent extremism amongst young men. Nicolas was named by one …

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Amor Towles

Amor Towles

Friday 24th May, 7.30pm

Besides the obvious prestige of writing three NYT bestsellers - Rules of Civility, A Gentleman in Moscow, and The Lincoln Highway - Amor has and continues …

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Velia Vidal

Monday 27th May, 7.30pm

We are very excited to partner again in 2024 with one of our favourite independent publishers, Charco Press, and celebrate translated fiction together in the Bookshop. …

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Cat Bohannon

Cat Bohannon & Kate Womersley

Tuesday 28th May, 7.30pm

We're honoured to be hosting Cat Bohannon for her Women's Prize for Non-Fiction longlisted Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution.Over …

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S.T. Gibson and Susan Dennard

Susan Dennard & S.T. Gibson

Thursday 30th May, 7.30pm

We are thrilled to welcome two bestselling fantasy authors to the bookshop this May, S.T. Gibson and Susan Dennard, to celebrate their latest fantasy novels! Evocation …

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Coco Mellors

Coco Mellors: From Cleo and Frank to the Blue Sisters

Friday 31st May, 7.30pm

Is there anybody who didn't adore Cleopatra & Frankenstein?Beloved by our booksellers and readers alike, Coco Mellors' debut - a Sunday Times bestseller, no less - …

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Marlon James

Marlon James: A Decade Since the Booker Prize

Monday 3rd June, 7.30pm

Who would believe it has been a decade since Kingston's finest, Marlon James, won the Booker Prize? His A Brief History of Seven Killings is a …

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Andrew O'Hagan

Tuesday 4th June, 7.30pm

Andrew O'Hagan has been nominated for the Booker Prize, voted one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2003, and won the E. M. Forster …

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Selva Almada

Wednesday 5th June, 7.30pm

We are thrilled to be welcoming Selva Almada for her latest novel published by the wonderful independent publisher Charco Press. Shortlisted for the Mario Vargas Llosa …

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Claire Daverley

Claire Daverley

Thursday 6th June, 7.30pm

Claire Daverley won our hearts with her blockbuster debut, Talking at Night. It also won the (perhaps more influential) acclaim of Jojo Moyes and Libby Page, …

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Max Hastings

Wednesday 19th June, 7.30pm

This summer we welcome back Military Historian Max Hastings. Known for such gripping and thoroughly researched works as Abyss and Operation Pedestal, we are looking forward …

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Irvine Welsh

Irvine Welsh

Monday 8th July, 7.30pm

This July, we're over the moon to be hosting Irvine Welsh to celebrate publication of his newest novel. Beloved all over the world but especially so …

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