Listings: Before 12pm, Books, free events

Escape your reading rut and find a book to cure all life's ills as prescribed by Ella Berthoud, renowned bibliotherapist from School of Life and co-author of The Novel Cure. Ella offers free and confidential 15-minute consultations and will prescribe the perfect fiction to help you fix your life! From 12-4pm.

Between 11am-1pm somewhere in Edinburgh 3rdthought, the renowned over-60s theatre company, will be delivering its personal face-to-face show Invisible People Journeys. A coloured counter will buy you a poem, a story, a joke, a scene or a conjuring trick. The company will be presenting up to 120 two-minute shows a day…

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Nadia Brooks / Free Festival. Northerner Brooksy packs Yorkshire Tea and takes her trusty Ford Focus on a solo quest across the United States. Along the way she: ventures through labyrinths; encounters possible serial killers, Terminator-esque cops, folks who sent men to the moon and those who witnessed Roswell's…