Sunday Adult Programme
The small town of Heathwick is just one minute from doom. In Eleanor Updale’s extraordinary book, which challenges the cliches of disaster reporting, each chapter covers a single second as the clock counts down... > MORE
Douglas Hurd with Edward Young - Disraeli: or The Two Lives
Festival Marquee / 1.30PM / £13, £11 (C) / Buy tickets
How did a bankrupt Jewish school dropout and trashy novelist come to dominate the Conservative Party in the second half of the 19th century and be seen as a great orator and gifted politician?... > MORE
During almost sixty years of living in this unique house in Inveresk since the 1950s, Sir Charles and Lady Ann Fraser have created a beautiful and very personal garden... > MORE
Having reported on the epic Democratic presidential primary battle between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and then both of his successful election campaigns, Jim Naughtie offers compelling and unique insights into the career, life and instincts of the first black man to hold the most powerful political office in the world... > MORE
In 1967 Elizabeth travelled to Ethiopia where she met Emperor Haile Selassie, was arrested for a murder she didn’t commit, went to the fabled city of Lalibela and hitched a ride across the desert... > MORE
Britain's Last Frontier with Alistair Moffat & James Naughtie
Hamilton Marquee / 4.45PM / £9, £7 (C) / Buy tickets
Alistair Moffat and James Naughtie talk about their shared fascination for Britain’s Last Frontier: A Journey Along the Highland Line. The last meaningful cultural divide between Scots - and English-speaking Scotland and the Gaelic north and west... > MORE
In May 1941 Rudolf Hess flew from Germany to Scotland, to talk peace with the 14th Duke of Hamilton, and precipitated one of the most bizarre episodes of the Second World War... > MORE
From the bestselling author of Labyrinth, Sepulchre and Citadel, a new collection of atmospheric short stories rooted deep in the landscape and inspired by traditional folk tales and country legends from England and France... > MORE
Set during the scorching summer of 1976, award-winning Maggie O’Farrell’s new novel Instructions for a Heatwave evokes a vivid picture of that time... > MORE
2014 sees the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War and to accompany a four-part landmark TV series next year, Jeremy has written a superb account... > MORE
This is the record of a remarkable experience in one of the most hostile environments on Earth. Subtitled Ice, Silence and Emperor Penguins, it is beautifully written by Gavin Francis, who fulfilled a lifetime’s ambition when he spent fourteen months as the base-camp doctor at Halley, a profoundly isolated British research station on the Caird Coast of Antarctica... > MORE
Book festivals are about readers as well as writers, and the distinguished television journalist, Kirsty Wark, has never lost the childhood habit of devouring books. She comes to Lennoxlove to talk to fellow readers about books that changed her life, and why books will keep changing her perceptions and views... > MORE
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