Edinburgh International Book Festival - Samantha Harvey
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Edinburgh International Book Festival - Samantha Harvey

Samantha Harvey’s 2024 Booker Prize-winning Orbital juxtaposes the majestic with the intimate in an exquisite depiction of awe, fragility, and contemplative observation. Harvey returns to the Festival to reflect on her year since winning one of literature’s highest honours and what it means to write life in space with the sensibility of a nature writer.

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Edinburgh International Book Festival - Penny Johnson
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Edinburgh International Book Festival - Penny Johnson

Penny Johnson is a founding member of the Institute of Women’s Studies at Birzeit University and has published articles and edited a number of important books on Palestine. Her latest book, Forgotten: Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials, written with awyer, writer, and human rights activist Raja Shehadeh explores the landscape of Israel and Palestine to show how monuments which have been created, maintained, or neglected map the political and cultural struggles which fragment the land today.

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Edinburgh International Book Festival - Dawn O’Porter
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Edinburgh International Book Festival - Dawn O’Porter

Dawn O’Porter’s debut novel, Paper Aeroplanes, inspired by, and loosely based on, her own experiences of growing up in the small island community of Guernsey in the 1990s. O'Porter appears at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in a conversation with Denise Mina

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Red Arrows Fly-past
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Red Arrows Fly-past

The Red Arrows fly over Edinburgh on their fly-over of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary season this year

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Iain Dale All Talk with Joanna Cherry KC
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Iain Dale All Talk with Joanna Cherry KC

Scottish lawyer and former SNP MP for Edinburgh South West, Joanna Cherry KC is interviewed by LBC presenter, Iain Dale at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. During the conversation Joanna Cherry stated that she had unseen information that would support the theory there had been a conspiracy against fromer SNP leader, Alex Salmond, and this would be published in a book she will be publishing in 2026.

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