Edinburgh Book Fest: Stars, Stories, & History

0:00The Edinburgh International Book Festival just dropped their front list for the big August event running from August 17th to 30th at McHughan Hall Headmine stars include Douglas Stewart, the Booker winner behind Shuggie Bane and Young Mungo, plus Diana Gabaldon of Outlander fame and Pulitzer King Colson Whitehead. It's 15 top tier talks mixing fiction, journalism, history, and performance Gabaldon celebrates the 35th anniversary of Outlander. The book can show that Supercharged Scotland's tourism and TV scene Stewart links up with Poah Jackie K for a deep dive while Whitehead tackles race, history, and storytelling's heavy moral load Festival goers and book lovers are buzzing as this line of Spotlight's voice is pushing nuance chats amid polarized times BBC's Lise Dauce shares Warzone Wisdom, journalist Lewis Goodall, and Edward Wong Unpack the fraying US UK ties under Trump and crime scribe Val McDermott rehashes Scotland's wild Darian disaster with Geographer Joe Sharp

1:03More heat comes from historian Tom Holland on Roman emperors David O'Lusica's Empire lecture Booker vet Kiran decides fresh fiction after 20 years Ella Schifach and Patchett poet Kate Tempest on identity Charlie McCosie's family-friendly hit and Mel Guidroik with Sue Perkins on her new novel Tickets hit for members at 10 a.m. Wednesday public grass from 10 a.m. on May 5th Scope the full line of at edbookfest.co.uk and lock in your spot for these literary fireworks From your city powered by AI. This is Edinburgh news today. I'm Corey with the story