Radical Book Fair 2024: From Where We Stand

The 2024 Radical Book Fair is taking place on 21st -24th November back at the Assembly Roxy in Edinburgh!

The theme for this year's fair will be From Where We Stand. With a nod to the thirty years of a radical bookshop excisting on West Nicolson Street, we'll be celebrating the way histories of resistance, protest and change-making live on in every step we take toward a more just future. Through the four days of the fair, we'll be diving into conversations about community organising, through time and across generations, international solidarity, radical histories and how we draw on them. We'll be exploring possible futures rooted in past struggles.

Sometimes it's not only about making new worlds - it's also about building from the worlds that have wilfully been buried through history, but which we all depend on.

The programme will be launched with a party at the bookshop on October 12th. Book your ticket for the launch HERE!

This year's marvelously empowering poster is an original design by the inimitable Lindsay Grime.

Accessibility: All events will be professionally filmed & livestreamed, as well as captioned both in the hall and online. The Roxy is wheelchair accessible (including toilets) and we'll have provisions for neurodivergent guests including stims, quiet space and colour-coded lanyards. *MASKS WILL BE REQUIRED AT ALL EVENTS*

The Radical Book Fair has been a staple of Edinburgh's political and literary landscape for over 20 years, originally run by Word Power Books, we've hosted writers as varied as Gary Younge, Micha Frazer-Carroll, Cory Doctorow & Rebecca Giblin, Kübra Gümüsay, Andreas Malm, Jim Kelman, Michael Rosen, Stella Dadzie, Akwugo Emejulu, Ann Pettifor, Alice Cappelle, Eve Livingston,  Jen Deerinwaterand Maya Goodfellow. The full 2023 Book Fair can be watched back HERE.

TICKETS: The Radical Book Fair is entirely bookshop run, without outside funding, so any and all support means the world to us. The Fair is FREE to BROWSE Thursday - Sunday and you can drop in whenever we are open,

Events are £5 or free -we completely understand paying for one event and then getting free spots for others. ALL ticket sales help both to anticipate attendance and to help us pay all our speakers. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask!