18:30 James Tait Black Prize This Year's Winners Unveiled RBS Main Theatre, £10 [£8] Broadcaster Sally Magnusson hosts Britain's oldest literary prize. Two prizes of £10,000 each are awarded by the University of Edinburgh to the best work of fiction and the best biography published in the previous year. Join us for this engrossing event where Magnusson will discuss the shortlists and reveal the identity of this year's winners.In association with the University of Edinburgh.ODYSSEYS18:45 Andy Coogan & Graham Ogilvy From Glasgow to Nagasaki Peppers Theatre, £10 [£8] The child of Irish immigrants, Andy Coogan was born on April Fool's Day 1917. From a poverty-stricken boyhood in the Gorbals to being tipped as an Olympic runner, then being taken prisoner by the Japanese and on to the atomic wasteland of Nagasaki, his life story is vividly recounted in Tomorrow You Die. Graham Ogilvy, the journalist who helped write the memoir, joins the 94 year old Coogan for this event.19:00 Stuart MacBride Wishing You an Unhappy Birthday ScottishPower Studio Theatre, £10 [£8] No longer the rising star of Scottish crime writing, Aberdonian Stuart MacBride has now become an international bestseller. His brilliant and brutal new book tells the story of a detective in search of a serial killer - only trouble is, his own daughter is one of the victims. Birthdays for the Dead has been described by fellow crime writer Val McDermid as 'Tartan noir at its best'.THE STATE OF BRITAIN19:00- THE GUARDIAN Debate 20:15 Rethinking Labour Is the Labour Party Damaged Beyond Repair? The Guardian Spiegeltent, £10 [£8] Decimation in the British polls was followed by slaughter in the Scottish elections. Labour's decade of Westminster power and a century of influence in Scotland is over and, for the moment at least, it shows all the signs of being a spent political force. But with the SNP taking the ultimate political gamble in an independence referendum, and the UK Coalition in the economic doldrums, is there an opportunity for a socialist phoenix to rise from the flames? If so, what should it look like? Polly Toynbee and Gerry Hassan lock horns in an event chaired by Gavin Esler.Like memoir? Love.Patrick Flanery & Donald McRae (21 Aug, p39) The I can save you brigade are particularly radioactive. They think if you just inhale some of their middle-classism, Then You'll be saved. Jenni Fagan, The Panopticon, 20:30See page 83 for booking detailsBook now: www.edbookfest.co.uk 0845 373 588851Juli Zeh, 19:00Lavinia Greenlaw, 10:15Lydia Cacho, 16:00

Enjoy Scandinavian crime writing? Love. Jens Lapidus (17 Aug, p28)SCIENCE MEETS FICTION19:00 Jane Rogers & Juli Zeh Dystopian Visions of the Near Future RBS Corner Theatre, £7 [£5] In The Method, Juli Zeh writes about Mia, a young scientist in the mid-21st century who is infused with a subversive intellect. Convinced that her brother has been wrongfully convicted of a crime, she confronts the controlling regime. Jane Rogers' Arthur C Clarke Award-winning and Booker-longlisted The Testament of Jessie Lamb is set in a world where biological terrorism has changed life forever and where women are dying in their millions.GUEST SELECTOR: JAMES NAUGHTIE20:00 THE BAILLIE GIFFORD EVENT Zadie Smith North-West or Nowhere? RBS Main Theatre, £10 [£8] Few authors endure such a weight of expectation around the publication of a new novel as Zadie Smith. NW, Smith's fourth fictional outing, returns to the part of London which inspired her acclaimed debut White Teeth, and follows the fortunes of four former friends who grew up together on a housing estate. We are thrilled that the leading British novelist unveils her much-anticipated new book in Edinburgh, in conversation with James Naughtie.20:30 Jasper Fforde Introducing Thursday's Next Adventure ScottishPower Studio Theatre, £10 [£8] The irrepressible Jasper Fforde joins us again to unveil his seventh novel featuring the much-loved Thursday Next. In Fforde's comic parallel universe, England is a republic whose first president was George Formby, and Thursday's genius 15 year old daughter, Tuesday, is working on a shield to protect their home town from the wrath of an angry Deity. Join Fforde to enter a hilariously unpredictable world.20:30 Masterclass with David Hewson Making a Killing Peppers Theatre, £10 [£8] It's not uncommon for a hit TV series to be based on a bestselling novel, but David Hewson is turning this formula on its head with a new novel based on BBC4's The Killing. In this masterclass, the bestselling author offers a practical guide on how he deconstructed 20 hours of television into one novel, and how he drew unusual inspiration from an earlier project: rewriting Macbeth as an audiobook. ANOBII FIRST BOOK AWARD NOMINEE20:30 Jenni Fagan & Joe Stretch As Sharp as the Cutting Edge Can Get RBS Corner Theatre, £7 [£5] With comparisons to Michel Houellebecq trailing behind him, Joe Stretch returns with The Adult, a decidedly dark coming-of-age tale about Jim Albright and his family of 'performers'. Jenni Fagan gives us Panopticon, in which a teenage counter-culture outlaw Anais Hendricks is being dragged off to a home for chronic young offenders where she is about to make some very intriguing new acquaintances.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 WE LOVE THIS BOOK EVENT Will Self A Very Modern Condition RBS Main Theatre, £10 [£8] Since he burst onto the literary scene with The Quantity Theory of Insanity, Will Self has established himself as one of Britain's most adventurous writers. Here, he discusses his ambitious new novel Umbrella with literary critic Stuart Kelly. Extravagant and wildly imaginative, it tells the story of a munitions worker who has fallen into a coma. Is her disease a microcosm of the technological revolutions of the twentieth century?Sat 25 August (continued) Often a model, her her features And she 'like a 52Jane Rogers, 19:00Adrian Levy & Catherine Scott-Clark, 19:00