The Edinburgh International Book Festival returns from 9 to 24 August with a programme themed around repair. We spoke to the festival’s CEO Jenny Niven about the issues this year’s theme, repair, aims to shed light on. The theme this year is repair, ‘which seeks to explore the many things around us which feel broken, and how we might seek to fix them’. How does the festival plan to explore the concept of repair across different dimensions: social, environmental, political and personal through its programming? How does the festival’s young adult programme, featuring authors, approach the theme of repair for younger audiences?