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

Oyinkan Braithwaite is at the Edinburgh International Book Festival talking about her second novel Cursed Daughters

Mark Haddon, multi-million copy best selling writer of "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time" talks at the Edinburgh International Book Festival about his memoir, Leaving Home

Booker Prize winner Anne Enright at the Edinburgh International Book Festival