Govanhill Book Festival 2026
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Govanhill Book Festival is back with a packed programme of poetry, kids story-telling, fiction and politics.
Join us at 7pm on Friday 7th for Jeremy Corbyn in conversation with Josie Long. They'll be talking about Jeremy's latest book The Gaza Tribunal, the future of the left, and how we organise against the Far Right.
Then at 11am on Saturday 8th we have Feast of Fools a storytelling show for ages 5 and up that takes us on a tour of the delicious and disgusting.
at 12:30pm on Saturday 8th Rahul Rao will be talking about his book The Psychic Lives of Statues, assessing the rubble of empire just as the council try and re-erect the statues in George Square.
at 2pm on Saturday 8th Frances Crawford will be reading from her hotly tipped debut novel A Bad Bad Place, a thrilling murder mystery set in 1970s Glasgow.
then at 4pm on Saturday 8th join three of Scotland's leading poets, reading at the intersections of poetry, politics, and language. This stellar line up of Beth Frieden, Ruth Aylet and Hannah Lavery represents
some of the best new poetry in Scotland
Finally a week later at the Glad Cafe on Thursday 13th August we round of the Festival with the launch of Equal Pay or We Walk Away, a new book by Gerry Mooney, Jimmy Main and Val Wright looking at the historic equal pay strike in our city.
All tickets from https://govanhillbaths.com/whatson/
Join us at 7pm on Friday 7th for Jeremy Corbyn in conversation with Josie Long. They'll be talking about Jeremy's latest book The Gaza Tribunal, the future of the left, and how we organise against the Far Right.
Then at 11am on Saturday 8th we have Feast of Fools a storytelling show for ages 5 and up that takes us on a tour of the delicious and disgusting.
at 12:30pm on Saturday 8th Rahul Rao will be talking about his book The Psychic Lives of Statues, assessing the rubble of empire just as the council try and re-erect the statues in George Square.
at 2pm on Saturday 8th Frances Crawford will be reading from her hotly tipped debut novel A Bad Bad Place, a thrilling murder mystery set in 1970s Glasgow.
then at 4pm on Saturday 8th join three of Scotland's leading poets, reading at the intersections of poetry, politics, and language. This stellar line up of Beth Frieden, Ruth Aylet and Hannah Lavery represents
some of the best new poetry in Scotland
Finally a week later at the Glad Cafe on Thursday 13th August we round of the Festival with the launch of Equal Pay or We Walk Away, a new book by Gerry Mooney, Jimmy Main and Val Wright looking at the historic equal pay strike in our city.
All tickets from https://govanhillbaths.com/whatson/
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Where is it happening?
Queen's Park Govanhill Parish Church, 170 Queens Drive,Glasgow, United Kingdom
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Host or PublisherHenry Bell
