The 46th Edinburgh Comedy Awards have announced the nominees for this years award. The six nominees for the Audible Best Comedy are Chris Cantrill, Dan Tiernan, Harriet Dyer, Lara Ricote, Li Jin Hao and Spencer Jones

Andrey Kurkov is a Ukrainian author and public intellectual who writes in Russian and Ukrainian. He is appearing at the Edinburgh International Book Festival discussing the third instalment of his International Booker Prize-longlisted Kyiv Mysteries series, The Lost Soldiers, alongside the third volume of his war diaries, Three Years on Fire, chronicling the third year of Russia’s invasion

Comedian, presenter, and Sunday Times bestselling author Mel Giedroyc appears at the Edinburgh International Book Festival

John Grisham has written 52 consecutive number one bestsellers, which have sold 500 million copies in more than 45 languages around the world. He appears at the Edinburgh International Book Festival with Scottish crime writer Ian Rankin

Dame Marina Warner is an English historian, mythographer, art critic, novelist and short story writer. She is appearing at the Edinburgh International Book Festival discussing here latest book Sanctuary which explores the right to safety, home, freedom of movement, and peace

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Historian and The Rest is History podcast co-host Tom Holland appears at the Edinburgh International Book Festival discussing his new translation of The Lives of the Caesars, written by Suetonius 2,000 years ago which he describes as having ‘the quality of a very highbrow gossip column’

Professor Turi King is a professor and Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath. She was previously Professor of Public Engagement and Genetics at the University of Leicester. In 2012, King led the DNA verification during the exhumation and reburial of Richard III of England.

Sir Jeremy Hunt is a British politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2022 to 2024 and Foreign Secretary from 2018 to 2019, having previously served as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care from 2012 to 2018 and as Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport from 2010 to 2012. He is talking at the Edinburgh International Book Festival to promote his book Can We Be Rich Again? The Surprising Potential of Britain's Economy

Jane Harper is a British Australian author known for her crime novels, including The Dry, Force of Nature, and The Lost Man, all set in rural Australia

35 years since the publication of the first of the Outlander novels Diana Gabaldon appears at the Edinburgh International Book Festival to reflect on the inspirations behind the adventures of the Fraser clan and how creating the ‘Sassenach’ changed her life forever

Crime novelist Val McDermid and Geographer Royal for Scotland Jo Sharp appear at the Edinburgh International Book Festival

Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and author of The Seven Rules of Trust, at the Edinburgh International Book Festival

Baroness Brenda Hale of Richmond was the first woman to serve as President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. Lady Hale appears at the Edinburgh International Book Festival to promote her book With the Law on Our Side

Trainspotting author, Irvine Welsh appears at the Edinburgh International Book Festival to launch his latest novel Can Nothing Save Us?

Tech critic and sci-fi author Cory Doctorow appearing at the Edinburgh International Book Festival discussing his book Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

New York Times bestselling author Charlotte McConaghy appearing at the Edinburgh International Book Festival to discuss her 2026 Women's Prize for Fiction long-listed novel Wild Dark Shore