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Edinburgh International Book festival: day two bulletin

What's going on, which tickets are still available and what to expect on the site
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Sunday morning paper-reading in Guardian deckchairs on the festival site. Photograph: Yasmin Sulaiman

It's day two at the book festival and there are more than a few sore heads and bleary eyes around after last night's lively launch party.

There was much to celebrate too after a fantastic first day, in which John Ashton, Jim Swire and Hans Kochler questioned the trial of Lockerbie bomber AbdelBaset al-Megrahi, Simon Callow poured forth his passion for Dickens and Jacqueline Wilson launched her eagerly anticipated update of E Nesbit's Five Children and It.

We also nabbed Frank Cottrell Boyce, Andrew Motion and Paul Mason for our first day podcast.

Today at the book festival, sold-out events include talks by former Islamic extremist Maajid Nawaaz, and Aung San Suu Kyi's biographer Peter Popham.

Other highlights include celebrated Scottish authors Alasdair Gray and Janice Galloway, whose artfully titled memoir – All Made Up – is a contender for Scottish Book of the Year, which will be announced on Friday August 17th.

As of 10am, there are still tickets available for both these events, as well as the following:

12.00: Henry McLeigh & Paul Henderson Scott
13.30: Darren Shan
15.30: Theresa Breslin & Elizabeth Laird
15.30: David Lammy
16.30: Prue Leith
18.45: Ben Marcus & Colson Whitehead
19.00: Louise Welsh

There are also tickets left for the first Guardian Debate, Rethinking the Union (part 1), which features former UK Minister for Culture David Lammy and nationalist Scottish author Alan Bissett.

There's been one cancellation, Charles Ferguson, who was due to talk about his Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job.

Here's today's signing tent schedule:

Edinburgh Book Festival line up Edinburgh Book Festival line up Photograph: Yasmin Sulaiman

Unbound – a free series if literary events every evening in the Guardian Spiegeltent - starts today too. Tonight's line-up include Submarine-author Joe Dunthorne, John Osbourne, Tim Clare and Ross Sutherland, residents at East London literary cabaret Homework.

Also look out for today's What I'm Thinking About, from novelist Madeleine Thien. Yesterday's meditation on capitalism and singledon from Ewan Morrison has been causing a bit of a stir.

And if you're wandering around the book festival site, don't forget to vote for the Anobii First Book Award using the leaflets found in the foyer (you can also vote online).

Got any highlights from your time at the Edinburgh International Book Festival so far? Tell us all about your experiences, and what you're looking forward to.

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