Titles by our 2020 Festival Authors
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Helen Macdonald
Vesper FlightsAnimals don't exist to teach us things, but tha...Animals don't exist to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves. From the bestselling author of H is for Hawk... -
Gordon Corera
Russians Among UsThe urgent, explosive story of Russia's espiona...The urgent, explosive story of Russia's espionage efforts against the West from the Cold War to the present - including their interference in the 2016 presidential election. Like a scene from a le ... -
Ann Lingard
The Fresh and the SaltFirths and estuaries are liminal places, where ...Firths and estuaries are liminal places, where land meets sea and tides meet freshwater. Their unique ecosystems support a huge range of marine and other wildlife: human activity too is profoundly ... -
Luis Sagasti
A Musical OfferingSagasti narrates for us a thousand and one stor...Sagasti narrates for us a thousand and one stories centre around music that take the reader from Bach to Gould, from Gould to the Beatles, from Sergeant Pepper to the music that was played in Nazi ... -
Stephen Rutt
The Seafarers: A Journey Among BirdsThe British Isles are remarkable for their extr...The British Isles are remarkable for their extraordinary seabird life: spectacular gatherings of charismatic Arctic terns, elegant fulmars and stoic eiders, to name just a few. Often found in the m... -
Alastair McIntosh
Riders on the StormClimate change is the greatest challenge to hum...Climate change is the greatest challenge to humankind today. While the coronavirus sheds a light on the vulnerability of our interconnected world, the effects of global warming will be permanent, i... -
Edited by Kathleen Jamie
Antlers of WaterThe first ever collection of contemporary Scott...The first ever collection of contemporary Scottish writing on nature and landscape, Antlers of Water showcases the diversity and radicalism of new Scottish nature writing today. Edited, curated and... -
Richard Holloway
Stories We Tell OurselvesThroughout history we have told ourselves stori...Throughout history we have told ourselves stories to try and make sense of what it all means: our place in a small corner of one of billions of galaxies, at the end of billions of years of existenc... -
Kate Humble
A Year of Living SimplyIf there is one thing that most of us aspire ...If there is one thing that most of us aspire to, it is, simply, to be happy. And yet attaining happiness has become, it appears, anything but simple. Having stuff - The Latest, The Newest, The Be... -
A. Kendra Greene
The Museum of Whales You Will Never SeeWelcome to Iceland, a very small nation with a ...Welcome to Iceland, a very small nation with a very large number (two hundred and sixty five) of (mostly) very small museums. Founded in the backyards of houses, begun as jokes or bets or memorials... -
Julian Baggini
The Godless GospelEven if we don't believe that Jesus was the son...Even if we don't believe that Jesus was the son of God, we tend to think he was a great moral teacher. But was he? And how closely do idealised values such as our love of the family, helping the ne... -
Philippe Sands
The RatlineAs Governor of Galicia, SS Brigadefuhrer Otto F...As Governor of Galicia, SS Brigadefuhrer Otto Freiherr von Wachter presided over an authority on whose territory hundreds of thousands of Jews and Poles were killed, including the family of the aut...
