Our man about the Festivals with a camera, John Preece, was in Charlotte Square Garden today.
There are many many authors on the invitation list so he picked a selection for you from the staged photo shoots at the back of the press tent!
The press call list today was like this:
9.45am Kei Miller, Kamila Shamsie & Christos Tsiolkas
10.00am Stuart Allan & David Forsyth
10.30am Robert Twigger
11.00am Adrian Wooldridge
11.30am David Reynolds
11.45am Justin Cartwright
12.00pm Mike Small & Andrew Whitley
1.00pm Alasdair Gray
1.30pm Khaled Fahmy
2.00pm Louisa Young
2.30pm Julian Baggini
2.45pm Dairmid Gunn & Steve Matheson
2.55pm Gerry Hassan & Lesley Riddoch
3.05pm Anna Whitwham & Niq Mhlongo
3.30pm Jean Findlay
4.00pm Richard Dawkins
6.00pm Mark Watson
6.15pm Caro Ramsay & Nicola White
6.25pm Caroline Moorehead
6.35pm Otto de Kat
7.30pm Alistair Moffat
7.45pm William Fotheringham
7.55pm Robin Hanbury-Tennison
8.05pm Mike Carey & Ken MacLeod
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