Edinburgh International Book Festival

Discussion of the main ideas of COSMOSAPIENS by John Hands at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, chaired by James Runcie, 7:15pm – 8:15pm. For more details see here.

Despite big names like Alexander McCall Smith, Val McDermid, Mark Lawson, and Howard Jacobson appearing in different events at the same time, the event was a near sellout in the 325-seater venue. Although COSMOSAPIENS was by a huge margin by far the longest and most expensive book in the EIBF bookshop, the book-signing area ran out of copies within minutes.  The manager urgently asked the main EIBF bookshop to send over all their copies, but even these weren’t enough.

Edinburgh International Book Festival press photo
© Roberto Ricciuti