This year’s Radical Book Fair is taking place on Nov 5th – 8th at the Assembly Roxy in Edinburgh. Our theme for 2026 is Building a Better Now and our programme is now live!
With this year’s theme, we want to shine a bright light on the many spaces, people and movements where the beginnings of a different world already exist, those pockets of reality where glorious alternatives to late capitalism and despair are carved out moment by moment.
As we spend our days and lives longing for a world that isn’t framed by oppression, sometimes we’re lucky enough to get a whiff of something different: a campaign, an organising space, a community of support. In those glimpses, we recognise what might be possible on a larger scale. It’s vital that we direct energy and resources to the breathing, flawed and sprawling experiments in liberation we see around us – be they small or large.
These are seeds for the world we want.
Like previous years, the fair will be made up of book stalls, activist stalls, events, workshops and more, ranging from topics such as the cost of living crisis, effective activism, queer ecology, lives in protest and prison, feminist utopias, fighting the rise of the right and much more. There will also be plenty of joy-giving performances and word-smithery and a community meal!
