18:30 Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards Scottish Book of the Year RBS Main Theatre, £10 [£8] At this keynote event, BBC Radio 4 presenter Dame Jenni Murray unveils the winner of the prestigious Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book of the Year. The recipient of the £30,000 first prize is drawn from four remarkable Scottish writers already selected as finalists and voted for by the public. Join us to find out whether it's Ali Smith (fiction), Janice Galloway (non-fiction), Angus Peter Campbell (poetry) or Simon Stephenson (first book) who will take the top prize.In partnership with Creative Scotland.ODYSSEYS18:45 Kapka Kassabova You've Been Tangoed Peppers Theatre, £10 [£8] To the uninitiated, tango is just a dance. To the aficionado, it's a religion. In Twelve Minutes of Love, Kapka Kassabova recalls first entering a tango studio 10 years ago and being instantly hooked. She's danced through the night, from Auckland to Edinburgh, and Berlin to Buenos Aires, suffering blisters and heartbreak but experiencing moments of dance-floor ecstasy.19:00 Denise Mina Hard Men and Cardboard Gangsters ScottishPower Studio Theatre, £10 [£8] As the grande dame of Scottish crime fiction, Denise Mina places a deep understanding of the social fabric of Glasgow at the heart of her blistering Alex Morrow series. In the latest affair, Gods and Beasts, DS Morrow investigates the senseless murder of an old man in a post office and proceeds to uncover blackmail, political chicanery and a bag of untraceable cash.SPORT: MIND GAMES19:00- Debate: Rethinking Sport 20:15 Has Professionalism Ruined Our National Games? The Guardian Spiegeltent, £10 [£8] Greed, debt, cheating and the cult of the overpaid celebrity: these are just some of the downsides of professional sport as we know it today. Is it time for a radical rethink of the way football, professional cycling and other sports are funded? BBC Sports Editor Mihir Bose leads this discussion with cycling journalist Richard Moore and Ruth Wishart, who takes the chair.THE ART OF TRANSLATION19:00 Masterclass with Nathan Englander & Etgar Keret The Story Remains the Same RBS Corner Theatre, £10 [£8] Etgar Keret's Suddenly, a Knock on the Door is an ingenious and original collection of stories. Originally written in Hebrew, the stories' translators included the author Nathan Englander whose own short story collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank is published this year. In this special event they discuss the relationship between author and translator and how a story lives and grows from one language to another.20:00 Jackie Kay 'Isn't Life an Awfully Big Adventure?' RBS Main Theatre, £10 [£8] Hot on the heels of her award-winning memoir, Red Dust Road, the much-loved Jackie Kay publishes an electric book of short stories, Reality, Reality. Populated by vivacious women, her stories fizzle with life: Grace and Rose are the first women to marry on Shetland; Stef cooks for judges on a TV show in her head. Spend an hour with this exuberant, versatile, wonderfully entertaining writer. SCIENCE MEETS FICTION20:30 Neal Stephenson Remarkable Output and Diversity ScottishPower Studio Theatre, £10 [£8] In Neal Stephenson's book of essays, Some Remarks, he blends such diverse topics as technology, economics, history, science, pop culture and philosophy, pondering a wealth of subjects, from movies and politics to video games and geekdom. In his latest novel, Reamde, he delivers a high-intensity, action-packed adventure thriller in which an entrepreneur gets caught in the crossfire of his own online war game.ANOBII FIRST BOOK AWARD NOMINEE20:30 Doug Johnstone & Jens Lapidus New Kids on the Crime Writing Block Peppers Theatre, £10 [£8] Journalist and musician Doug Johnstone parks Hit and Run at our doors. A drunk news reporter accidentally runs a man over, leaving him for dead. The next day he discovers he'll be writing up the story for his paper and the deceased is a crime kingpin. Jens Lapidus is the man behind a Stockholm Noir trilogy kicking off with Easy Money featuring an unsentimental vision of the Swedish capital's nihilistic criminal networks.ANOBII FIRST BOOK AWARD NOMINEE20:30 Kim Thuy & Chika Unigwe Upbringings Against the Odds RBS Corner Theatre, £7 [£5] A thoroughly moving novel about one girl's search for belonging in Nigeria, Chika Unigwe's Night Dancer features Mma who has just buried her mother, and seeks a truth that might not be especially palatable. Kim Thúy's Ru is the powerfully moving story of a young Vietnamese girl relayed in vignettes from Saigon to a new life in Quebec. We are thrilled to welcome two visiting stars of international literature.21:00- Unbound 23:00 Stories, Music and Literary High Jinks The Guardian Spiegeltent, Free & Drop-In A literary experience like no other. Anything goes: storytelling, music, performance, poetry, stand-up - it's a raw, surprising, sometimes emotional ride. Come with an open mind! The line-up will be announced in July in The Skinny magazine and on our website at www.edbookfest.co.uk.21:30 THE SKINNY EVENT Grant Morrison The Changing Face of the Superhero RBS Main Theatre, £10 [£8] The leading Scottish comic book writer Grant Morrison divides his time between Scotland and Hollywood, and he joins us this evening to talk about the comics industry as it squares up to the game-changing developments of the 21st century. Following up the arguments in his brilliant book Supergods, Morrison contends that superheroes are powerful icons for a multimedia age. Fri 17 August (continued)Like Sport? Love.Chris Cleave (25 Aug, p50)They spit with the boys, they argue with the boys, SOMETIMES THEY EVEN FIGHT WITH THE BOYS,scratching and biting until someone comes to drag them away. Yet, they never let us forget that they are girls. Their tops plunge low; buttons remain undone, cheap perfume clings to them.Chibundu Onuzo, The Spider King's Daughter, 15:3028

10:00- Paterson Arran 10:10 Ten at Ten Writers' Retreat, Free: Book in Advance A delicious morning reading from one of our Festival authors to set you up for the day. Check the screen in the Entrance Tent to see who's reading each day.10:15 Kirsty Gunn & Elliot Perlman Stories to Make Sense of Our History The Guardian Spiegeltent, £10 [£8] In The Big Music, Kirsty Gunn has created an epic literary novel that weaves a story of Scottish history through the eyes of John Sutherland, a folk musician struggling to complete a composition that will define his life. Meanwhile, leading Australian writer Elliot Perlman's The Street Sweeper interleaves the devastating stories of two men in a remarkable novel that ranges from New York to Warsaw and Auschwitz. Free coffee, courtesy of Heritage Portfolio. Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts.11:00 The Story of the BBC in Scotland Making Broadcast History Peppers Theatre, £10 [£8] Since its establishment in 1922 the BBC has continually asserted itself as one of the great British institutions at home and abroad. David Pat Walker has written an in-depth analysis of the history of BBC Scotland from its creation in 1923 through to its 50th anniversary. Mike Shaw, who produced one of the 50th anniversary programmes and worked closely with Walker on the book, discusses the development of the BBC in Scotland with James Boyle.11:00- Creative Writing Class 17:00 Creating Characters Writers' Retreat, £75 [£65] Whether you base your characters on real people or not, this course offers you creative routes to breathe that essential spark of life into them. Find fresh ways of approaching your work and what you can do to ignite the flicker of an idea. Acclaimed authors Laura Marney and Rodge Glass (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award for Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography) launch you on your way to writing great characters. The class consists of two 2-hour workshops and finishes with a reading and chat with the authors.(Lunch & coffee included.) In association with Moniack Mhor Writers' Centre in partnership with the Arvon Foundation.11:30 THE BAILLIE GIFFORD EVENT Maggie Fergusson & Michael Morpurgo The Biographer Interviews Her Subject RBS Main Theatre, £10 [£8] He's a master storyteller who has left an indelible mark on countless children who've grown up with his stories. Now, the astonishing success of War Horse on stage and screen has made Michael Morpurgo a household name. Maggie Fergusson's intriguing biography of the writer is interspersed with seven autobiographical short stories written by Morpurgo himself. Meet them both in what promises to be an unforgettable event for adults.Will the real Batman please stand up? Will Brooker unmasks the caped crusader... (22 Aug, p43)Stephen Kelman, 16:00Seamus Heaney, 18:30Irvine Welsh, 21:30Latecomers will not be admitted after the start of events and no refunds will be given.Events are 1 hour long unless otherwise stated and take place in Charlotte Square Gardens.29Sat 18 August