Highlights of the 2016 Edinburgh International Book Festival
In August 2016, the Edinburgh International Book Festival welcomed over 800 writers, illustrators, poets, politicians and philosophers from 55 countries to Charlotte Square Gardens in a packed programme of passionate ideas, engaged debates and pure entertainment. Here we feature some of the highlights, along with what authors and audiences had to say about their time at the Festival.
You can view events from the 2016 Edinburgh International Book Festival in full here in our Video Gallery, or find events and author interviews on our YouTube channel.
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Doug Johnstone, Val McDermid, Ambrose Parry & Mary Paulson-Ellis: Summer Crime Wave
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Matt Haig at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
Carmen Maria Machado: The Language of Violence
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor: Across the Indian Ocean
Howard W French: Why Africa is at the Centre of History
Chris Packham (2016 Event)
Arundhati Roy talks to Nicola Sturgeon at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
Kayo Chingonyi: The Poetry of Existence
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: The Myth of Human Progress