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Join us in the gardens
Admission free – everyone welcome!
Book Festival Bookshops
The Bookshop is open daily from 9.30am – 9.30pm.
Take time to browse and explore the thousands of
titles from Book Festival and other authors including
Scottish interest books, contemporary fiction and
non-fiction. A haven for book lovers.
RBS Children’s Bookshop is open daily from
9.30am – 8.30pm. The latest and best books for
youngsters are available in a bookshop created
especially for children – from babies to teenagers.
There are fun free Activity and Reading Corners at
the rear where kids (and any exhausted adults!)
can play, relax and read.
Book Signings
Authors sign copies of their books after their events.
Book signings take place in the London Review of Books
Signing Tent, The Bookshop and the RBS Children’s
Bookshop. Please check the venue boards outside each
venue for when signings are scheduled.
All proceeds from our independent bookshops are
put directly back into the Book Festival.
1548 Forth 2 at the Book Festival
Saturdays 12 noon – 2.45pm
Sundays 12 noon – 3.00pm
For further information go to www.forth2.com
Forth 2's very own Paula Whitelock will be soaking
up the atmosphere every weekend at this year’s
Book Festival. With guest interviews from some
of our bestselling authors, come along to Charlotte
Square Gardens to join in!
Eating and Drinking
Beetroot Blue Café Bar
in the London Review of Books Signing Tent
Daily from 9.30am – late
Fairtrade coffee, teas, whisky, wines and beer plus
a range of light snacks, sandwiches and salads.
Beetroot Blue Café Bar
in the Highland Park Spiegeltent
Daily from 11.30am – 6.00pm
Homemade soups, sandwiches, salads and Fairtrade
coffee and teas plus great beer, Stella Bella wine and
plenty of Highland Park whisky. Also live music most
lunchtimes.
Fenton Barns in The City
in The Bookshop
Daily from 9.30am – 9.15pm
The café at East Lothian’s Fenton Barns Farm Shop
is now in the heart of Edinburgh. Wholesome snacks,
tempting homemade pastries, mouth-watering cakes
and tarts, as well as Fairtrade organic coffees from
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, speciality teas and
award-winning soft drinks.
Di Rollo of Musselburgh Ice Cream Trike
Daily from 11.00am – 6.00pm
Luscious locally made ice cream.
The Spiegelbar
in the Highland Park Spiegeltent
Evenings from 9.00pm
A full and fabulous bar in our atmospheric 1930s
travelling ballroom with free live music every night
from Sunday 10 August. You can find out the
line-up of bands from the Information Desk in
the Entrance Tent.
Book Festival authors
on BBC Radio Scotland
Book Festival authors also take part in live recordings
of the Festival Café at the Famous Spiegeltent in
George Square – near Edinburgh University – from
Monday 11 to Friday 22 August (excluding weekends)
at 1.15pm – 2.00pm. Tickets are free from the Fringe:
0131 226 6000 or www.edfringe.com.
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