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Books featured in the Edinburgh Radical Book Fair 2026 programme

Jessica

The Edinburgh Radical Book Fair, organised every year by Lighthouse, is back for 2026 on 5th-8th November, at the Assembly Roxy!

The full programme - four days of panels featuring authors and organisers, workshops and performances - is now available here.

Books are of course the meeting space for all these conversations, and what allows us to bring together what's on the page with the work that needs doing in our communities - be it on anti-racism, AI datacentres, criminalisation of protest or international solidarity work.

These are the featured books by panellists in the line-up this year, making up a small number of the books you can browse on the tables of the fair this year.

Linked Books

title: Huna : A Memoir of Revolution, Prison and Becoming
author: Abdelrahman ElGendy

title: What Now : On Palestine, Freedom, and Our Global Future
author: Tareq Baconi

title: Building a feminist nation: Scotland in the era of polycrisis
author: Kim Barker (ed.), Helen O'Shea (ed.), Talat Yaqoob (ed.)

title: No More Deaths by Welfare
author: China Mills

title: Hunger Inc. : Building Solidarity Beyond the Food Bank
author: Garthwaite, Kayleigh

title: Ungrievable Lives
author: Tanisha Spratt

title: Safe Spaces
author: Cin, Tice

title: Out There
author: William Keohane

title: Beyond Belonging: East and Southeast Asian Presence, Identity and Activism in the UK
author: Kam, David

title: Fancy Work : Unpicking Past Lives
author: Alice Hattrick

title: How Not to Die (Too Soon) : The Lies We’ve Been Sold and the Policies That Can Save Us
author: Sridhar, Devi

title: How Not to Die (Too Soon): The Lies We’ve Been Sold and the Policies That Can Save Us
author: Lalita, Sridhar, Devi

title: The Next Fix : The Winners and Losers in the Future of Drugs
author: Kojo Koram

title: How Not to Save the World: Doing Good Without Annoying Everyone
author: Lawson, Anthea

title: Radical Justice : Building the World We Need
author: Nani Jansen Reventlow

title: From Popular Front to Cold War : The Interracial Left and the International Workers Order, 1930–1954
author: Elissa Sampson, Robert M. Zecker