The Edinburgh Book Festival has just announced its programme for this summer. I will be taking part on Sunday 11 August at 6.45pm, talking to Kate Molleson about my book Women and the Piano. I’m delighted to be included in this very popular festival.

This year the festival is moving to its new home in the Edinburgh Futures Institute, which used to be the Royal Infirmary.

My event is taking place in the Spiegeltent, which offers the possibility of having a piano. Whether an acoustic or a digital piano is not clear yet, but I hope to be able to play snippets of piano music written by the women we’ll be talking about. However, this isn’t a concert – it’s a book festival talk with a few musical illustrations.

Tickets go on sale on 20 June – if you’re within reach of Edinburgh, I hope you might join us.