EIBF Events on Sunday 19th August

• Wake Up To Words - Highland Park Spiegeltent

A top class hour of energetic, colourful family narrative from Scotland and Denmark. Rodge Glass’s debut No Fireworks was highly praised for its touching, funny depiction of a Jewish family. Morten Ramsland’s captivating Doghead also deals with generations of family eccentrics and messages from beyond the grave.

• Meet the Author - RBS Main Theatre

One of the most moving and uplifting events of last year’s Book Festival was the return of William McIlvanney, one of Scotland’s seminal novelists, with his first book for a decade, Weekend. The welcome was overwhelming and we are overjoyed to have him back with us this summer.

• Crime - Poppers Theatre

Two of the best Danish and Scottish crime writers come together. Leif Davidsen was for many years a foreign correspondent in Moscow; The Serbian Dane draws on his expert political knowledge. Paul Johnston’s new novel The Death List concerns a crime novelist suddenly drawn chillingly close to murder.