Win 12 brilliant books by authors appearing at the Edinburgh International Book Festival – plus a £50/€60 National Book Token!
The Front List is a series of exciting events with a host of star-studded authors. We have a set of every featured book to give away.

From the Festival stage to your bookshelf.
For more than 40 years, National Book Tokens have proudly sponsored Edinburgh International Book Festival. This year's Festival returns from 9th to 24th August with a stunning programme of over 600 events and livestreamed talks.
The Front List – a series of exciting events with a host of star-studded authors – returns for the second year at McEwan Hall.
To celebrate the return of the Festival, we're giving away a set of each of the featured Front List books and a £50/€60 National Book Token to spend in the many brilliant bookshops across the UK and Ireland.
The Front List featured books are:
- By Your Side by Ruth Jones
- Mark Kermode's Surround Sound: The Stories of Movie Music by Mark Kermode (published 11th September)
- Frankly by Nicola Sturgeon (published 14th August)
- Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
- The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Autocracy, Inc: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World by Anne Applebaum
- Butter by Asako Yuzuki, translated by Polly Barton
- PATRIOT: The Life Story and Secret Prison Diaries of Putin’s Most Feared Opponent by Alexei Navalny
- Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
- What We Can Know by Ian McEwan (published 18th September)
- Dear Scotland: On the Road with the Tartan Army by Ally McCoist