Edinburgh International Book Festival

Paula Hawkins

For Beth, the month of August in Edinburgh is the best time of the year. Not only does the city host the world's largest performing arts festival (Fringe), it also hosts the world-leading festival of words, literature, and ideas.

The Book Festival is featuring 650 writers from 35 countries, across 6 continents. Since books are very important to Beth, she has been going to hear many authors speak about their work and she has collected a number of those works signed by those authors. See picture of Paula Hawkins being interviewed about her global best seller, Girl on a Train. The novel was adapted into a film starring Emily Blunt in 2016. It doesn't get any better than this.