The Edinburgh International Book Festival 2025 programme, with close to 700 events, featuring 641 writers from 35 countries, across 6 continents returns with the theme - Repair. Seeking to explore the things that make us feel broken, and how we might seek to fix them. Using informed insights from a range of experts, lessons from our ancestors, the richness and connections by the natural world, and more. Events for all the family.

The Pleasance Opening Gala, part of the Fringe Festival had an array of talent this year! Some of the photographs from this year's festival.

The Assembly Festival 2023 was another huge hit providing a platform for over 1,000 performers and around 200 shows across the city.

Edinburgh Festivals have well and truly started, and the city is already a hive of activity with street performers and much more!

Did you know that the Edinburgh Festival is the third-largest event in the world? Edinburgh's population literary doubles every August.