Michael MacLeod 

Edinburgh book festival: Thursday round-up

Today's highlights: Irvine Welsh, Shaun Tan, Shehryar Fazli and more
  
  

A queue snakes past the Spiegeltent in Charlotte Square Gardens
A queue snakes past the Spiegeltent in Charlotte Square Gardens Photograph: Michael MacLeod /guardian.co.uk

Good morning Edinburgh!

Welcome to your daily morning round-up from the book festival here in Charlotte Square Gardens. You'll find a list of events that haven't sold out below, plus some links to other book festival bloggers.

Today's Story Shop guest is Laura Gavin, who will read a short story in the Spiegeltent from 4pm. It's free to drop in and listen. The event is presented by the Edinburgh Unesco City of Literature to support emerging writers.

Who else is covering the book festival:

Anna Burkey on the story shop, shoes and snappers at the book fest.

Toni Freitas blogs about Simon Garfield's Just My Type presentation.

Pippa Goldschmidt interviews Stuart Clark.

Ian Stewart's talk on the maths of biology is reviewed by Ken MacLeod.

Events with tickets available:

11.30am - David Lodge
11.30am - Ed Stourton
2pm - Tahar Ben Jelloun and Elias Khoury
2.30pm - George Craig and Dan Gunn
3pm - Jackie Kay
3.30pm - Dortothy Rowe
3.30pm - Stuart Clark and Douglas Watt
4pm - Alex Danchev and Willie Doherty
4.30pm - James Robertson with Irvine Welsh
5.30pm - Amnesty imprisoned writers series
6.30pm - Chris Mullin
6.45pm - Louise Welsh
7pm - Ian Kershaw
7pm - Masterclass with Jonathan Lynn
7pm - Voices of Asian literature
8pm - Carol Ann Duffy
8.30pm - David Leslie and Alexander Shannon
8.30pm - Shehryar Fazli and Kamila Shamsie
9pm - Unbound with Five Dials

See the rest of the programme and buy tickets online here.

Remember, you can tell us what you'd like to cover by getting involved in the discussion on TLS.

 

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