Edinburgh International Book Festival
We are thrilled to be partnering with Edinburgh International Book Festival 2021.
Running 14th - 30th August, this year Edinburgh is staging a hybrid festival with events streamed online along with many in-person events held at the Edinburgh College of Art within Edinburgh University.
Calibre are supporting their Story Nation programme, which brings the Book Festival direct to communities across Scotland who wouldn't otherwise be able to attend. We have worked with them to create a fabulous selection of books by featured authors from the festival, so Calibre members can join in with the events and then listen to the book in our collection.
Our news page has all the book details and event links you need, and you can find quick access to our featured authors here. We have also selected some great podcasts from previous festivals with other authors you can listen to in our collection that we hope you'll enjoy.
Photo courtesy of Edinburgh International Book Festival. Copyright Robin Mair.
Featured Author
Monique Roffey
Listen here
Book of the Day
The Mermaid of Black Conch
byMonique RoffeyFeatured Books
The books selected for the Story Nation Care Home programme are:
Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena Godden
The Accidental Footballer by Pat Nevin
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan
Lev’s Violin: An Italian Adventure by Helena Attlee
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
The Mermaid of the Black Conch by Monique Roffey
LOTE by Shola von Reinhold
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
The Wild Silence by Raynor Winn
The Young Team by Graeme Armstrong
We Are Attempting To Survive Our Time by A L Kennedy
The Long Drop by Denise Mina
Death in the East by Abir Mukherjee
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Purpose of Power by Alicia Garza
For more details on these titles and links to listen to the books and their corresponding Edinburgh events, please visit our Festival News here.