A diverse range of talks, panels, and other items (including many Satellite favourites)

Join award-winning author, David Goodman as he chats to Nicholas Binge about his propulsive, intelligent, edge-of-your-seat new book, Solitary Agents.

CYMERA is Scotland’s Festival of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Writing.

A night of nautical fantasy with Rafael Torrubia to speak about their fantastic debut, The Shipwright and the Shroudweaver, in conversation with Lorraine Wilson, author of The Salt Oracle.

Dark academia meets contemporary fantasy in this timely page-turner about a student who fails to gain admission to the UK's only school of magic but then finds their way there years later and unearths the ugly secrets simmering behind its ancient walls - unmissable for fans of Babel by R.F. Kuang and Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo.

Grace Curtis chats about her latest novel, Heaven's Graveyard.

Fantasy's Present Pasts, the first European Conference on the Fantastic.

Discover Sunyi Dean's fantastically haunting, dark urban fantasy set in historical Hong Kong, where ancient myths and local legends combine in a story of ghosts, grief and women who will not forgive.

Heba Al-Wasity and MK Hardy celebrate the publication of their sumptuously haunting debut mystery novels, Weavingshaw and The Needfire.

Join Ben for the launch of his claustrophobic horror debut novel

Joined by Kat Dunn, author of Hunger Stone, to celebrate her latest gothic tale, Rottenheart. Inspired by Hamlet, Rottenheart is a stunning new sapphic gothic horror novel set in the 1890s. It is a story of love and grief, mothers and daughters, death and madness. This is not one to miss for anyone who loves a retelling with the perfect gothic twist

There's something lurking in the stifling darkness and labyrinthine tunnels that run below London... something old, something vicious, and something very, very hungry.

Celebrate the launch of their new books, joined by Rhiannon Grist and Neil Williamson, in conversation with Rebecca Wojturska of Haunt Publishing.

The launch of A Snake Among Swans by Hannah Kaner

The Edinburgh International Book Festival is a charity which has been bringing outstanding writers and thinkers from around the world together with curious audiences for over forty years.

A Scottish science fiction and fantasy convention about science fiction and fantasy in Scotland. Held at the Salutation Hotel in Perth. Guest of Honour for 2026 is Neil Williamson.