HIGHLIGHTS
● 20 Years of Harry Potter Magic, 12 August: The birthday of JK Rowling’s creation will be honoured with “a perfect event for any Harry Potter fan.” ● Paul Auster at 70, 14 August: The US writer, who shot to fame with his New York Trilogy in the 1980s, makes his festival debut. ● Andrew O’hagan, 16 August: The Glasgow-born author and commentator maps out a future for Scotland in the wake of the divisions created by the 2014 independence referendum. ● Aidan O’rourke, James Robertson and Kit Downes, 17 August: Fiddler O’rourke was so inspired by author Robertson’s project to write a short story every day for a year he set about doing the same with new tunes. ● Scott Hutchison and Michael Pedersen, 18 August: The Frightened Rabbit frontman turned artist is to illustrate poet Pederson’s brand new collection. ● Charlotte Rampling, 19 August: The “Swinging Sixties” icon recalls a career which has seen her work with Sir Sean Connery, Woody Allen, Dirk Bogarde and Paul Newman. ● Sir Chris Hoy, 20 August: The six times Olympic champion has been making a name for himself as a children’s author – with the Flying Fergus adventure series. ● Sally Beamish, Dame Evelyn Glennie and David Mitchell, 25 August: Composer Beamish and percussionist Glennie join the Cloud Atlas author to look at emotional responses to music. ● Richard Ford, 28 August: The author of The Sportswriter explores “the reality of the American Dream in 2017.” ● John Simpson, 28 August: The award-winning foreign correspondent looks back on 50 years with the BBC.