BookFest

Book Festival Programme Launched

Book Festival Programme Launched

The Joy of Words at 40 years young

The Edinburgh International Book Festival has announced its usual diverse and enticing programme for 2023, its final year at the College of Art before moving across the road to its new permanent home at the Futures Institute.

Jun 16 2023 | By | Reply More
Book Festival Round-up

Book Festival Round-up

Theatre-interests at the Edinburgh International Book Festival

Although the main draw at the Book Festival for theatregoers is undoubtedly the magnetic This Is Memorial Device, there are also always plenty of other performances of interest.

Aug 24 2022 | By | Reply More
Playing With Books – the Yellow Door

Playing With Books – the Yellow Door

The last of this year’s Playing With Books events at the Book Festival was a singular piece. The Yellow Door was even more of a ‘work in progress’ than is usual for the strand as it is not yet even a book. I

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Playing With Books – the Long Drop

Playing With Books – the Long Drop

..and other recent Book Festival events

The Book Festival continues in its new home at the Edinburgh College of Art on Lauriston Place, and also continues to offer events of interest to theatre-goers.

Aug 26 2021 | By | Reply More
Bookfest Moves

Bookfest Moves

Bookfest to move to College of Art

The Edinburgh International Book Festival is to make a permanent move to the Edinburgh College of Art on Lauriston Place from this year’s event, running Sat 14 to Mon 30 August 2021.

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BookFest – The Final Whistle

BookFest – The Final Whistle

Edinburgh International Book Festival 2019  Final Round-up:

The Edinburgh International Book Festival 2019 closed with its customary eclectic selection of events a remarkably prescient glitch and a Playing with Books presentation that showed exactly what such an adaptation can do.

Aug 28 2019 | By | Reply More
Acting Out EdBookfest

Acting Out EdBookfest

Book Festival 2016 for theatre lovers:
The Edinburgh International Book Festival has launched its programme in its habitually classy fashion with psychedelically painted phrenology heads and plenty of talk about Charlotte Square being Edinburgh’s cultured quarter.

Jun 10 2016 | By | 1 Reply More