Edinburgh book festival: Thursday round-up

Good morning Edinburgh! Welcome to your daily morning round-up from the book festival here in Charlotte Square Gardens. You'll find a list of events that haven't sold out below, plus some links to other book festival bloggers. Today's Story Shop guest is Laura Gavin, who will read a short story in the Spiegeltent from 4pm. It's free to drop in and listen. The event is presented by the Edinburgh Unesco City of Literature to support emerging writers. Who else is covering the book festival: Anna Burkey on the story shop, shoes and snappers at the book fest. Toni Freitas blogs about Simon Garfield's Just My Type presentation. Pippa Goldschmidt interviews Stuart Clark. Ian Stewart's talk on the maths of biology is reviewed by Ken MacLeod . Events with tickets available: 11.30am - David Lodge 11.30am - Ed Stourton 2pm - Tahar Ben Jelloun and Elias Khoury 2.30pm - George Craig and Dan Gunn 3pm - Jackie Kay 3.30pm - Dortothy Rowe 3.30pm - Stuart Clark and Douglas Watt 4pm - Alex Danchev and Willie Doherty 4.30pm - James Robertson with Irvine Welsh 5.30pm - Amnesty imprisoned writers series 6.30pm - Chris Mullin 6.45pm - Louise Welsh 7pm - Ian Kershaw 7pm - Masterclass with Jonathan Lynn 7pm - Voices of Asian literature 8pm - Carol Ann Duffy 8.30pm - David Leslie and Alexander Shannon 8.30pm - Shehryar Fazli and Kamila Shamsie 9pm - Unbound with Five Dials See the rest of the programme and buy tickets online here . Remember, you can tell us what you'd like to cover by getting involved in the discussion on TLS .