As ever, the Edinburgh International Book Festival will see full-time authors rub shoulders with people better known for their day jobs who have turned their hand to literature.
From politicians and standups to journalists and television stars, here are 15 of the well known faces you can hear from this August.
Tickets go on sale om Thursday, June 29, at 10am here.
5. James Naughtie
Best known for his former hosting of Radio 4's the Today programme, BBC News special correspondent James Naughtie is at the festival on Friday, August 18, at 1.30pm to speak to Ruth Wishart about the third in the series of his gripping spy books - The Spy Across the Water. | Getty Images
6. Josie Long
Award-winning standup comedian Josie Long will be at the festival on Friday, August 18, at 7.30pm. She'll be talking to Viv Groskop about her short story collection, 'Because I Don’t Know What You Mean and What You Don’t'. | Contributed
7. Sara Pascoe
Comedian and host of the Great British Sewing Bee Sara Pascoe is at the festival on Saturday, August 19, at 11.45am. She's talking to Michael Pedersen about her first novel, 'Weirdo', the tale of a woman desperate to seem like a ‘normal’, well-adjusted grown up, despite what the voices in her head are telling her. | Getty Images
8. Polly Toynbee
Scotland's own Sally Magnusson will be interviewing fellow journalist Polly Toynbee at the festival on Saturday, August 19, at 6.45pm. They'll be speaking about her memoir 'An Uneasy Inheritance: My Family and Other Radicals, exploring the guilt of privilege, the myth of mobility, and the complexities of class in Britain now'. | Getty Images for BFI