EIBF Events on Monday 13th August

• Wake Up To Words - Highland Park Spiegeltent

The finest poetry to perk up Monday morning. Saltire winner Andrew Greig writes in many forms but today we celebrate his superb poems; hugely talented fellow Scot Donny O’Rourke reads from his newest collection; and Sophie Hannah – whose novels are featured later in the day – is also a bestselling poet and leading voice of her generation.

• Writing Workshop - Writers' Retreat

Learn how to make your characters live and breathe – creating believable and interesting characters for children's stories. With Linda Strachan, creator of Hamish McHaggis amongst others.

• The Green Mountain Coffee Roadsters Event - ScottishPower Studio Theatre

Lady Claire MacDonald is rightly one of the best-loved chefs and food writers in the land. In this special event she brings all her skill and joie de vivre to Celebrations, special food for special milestones in our lives.

• The Writing Business - Writers' Retreat

Everyone has a story to tell, but how do you turn it into something worth reading? Jennie Erdal, author of Ghosting: A Double Life, takes a look at life writing – distilling memories and secrets into the written word, while avoiding the pitfalls.

• First Fiction: Crime - Writers' Retreat

We are delighted to introduce two brand new voices in the vibrant Scottish crime writing scene. Glaswegian Frank Muir sets his hardbitten, gruesome Eye For An Eye in the douce streets of St Andrews. Edinburgh lawyer Gillian Galbraith sets her new Alice Rice series in the capital and has already drawn praise from Alexander McCall Smith.

• The Ritchie Neill Event - RBS Main Theatre

The charm, goodness and global appeal of the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency grow and grow. Alexander McCall Smith is an international publishing phenomenon, for this and his other acutely observed series set in Edinburgh itself. An hour in his company is an hour of utter delight, usually with one or two surprises...

• Lived Lives - ScottishPower Studio Theatre

One of Scotland’s most prominent young writers, famed for her gritty, blackly comic fiction, Laura Hird now brings us an immensely tender and touching memoir of her late mother. Revealing the feisty, passionate letters her mother wrote after Laura first left home, this is an incredibly moving account of grief and unconditional love.

• Poetry - Peppers Theatre

Three writers who have done much to underpin and support the thriving Scottish poetry scene. Tessa Ransford is founder of the Scottish Poetry Library and tireless champion of poetry itself. Saltire-shortlisted Duncan Glen has published the work of many others. Together with Alexander Hutchison, tonight they read their own work.

• The Faculty of Advocates Event - RBS Main Theatre

Perenially popular, Quintin Jardine’s perfectly plotted DC Bob Skinner novels go from strength to strength. In the latest, Death’s Door, Skinner is pitted against a devious killer and a grieving millionaire father who may not be all he seems. Come and enjoy insights into this highly charged, fast-paced fiction – but book quickly!