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Celebrate Book Week Scotland 2020 at home
This year's Book Week Scotland will look and feel a little different to the usual celebrations. However, we still have a jam-packed programme of online events and activities.
How will you celebrate Book Week Scotland? Take a look at our programme of online events and activities to plan your week and get involved.
All week
- Share your #BookWeekScotland(this will open in a new window) moments
- Download our Futurefree ebook
- Listen to the Future audiobook
- Host Future Tense, our Murder Mystery Party
Monday
- Let's talk: What are you reading for #BookWeekScotland(this will open in a new window)
- Take part: Put your favourite books in your window!
- Take part: Mystery Treasure Hunt
- Vote: The book that sums up 2020
- Watch premiere: 12:30pm Scottish Literature and Slavery - a walking tour with the Edinburgh Caribbean Association
Tuesday
- Let's talk: Take a tour of First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's book shelf for #BookShelfScotland(this will open in a new window). How do you organise yours?
- Take part: Mystery Treasure Hunt
- Play: Rabbie Burns Saves the World - an 8-bit game
- Take part: 8pm Comics Jam on Twitch with Neil Slorance
Wednesday
- Let's talk: Which book have you most enjoyed in 2020?
- Take part: Mystery Treasure Hunt
- Revealed: The book that sums up 2020
- Watch premiere: 12:30pm Ross Sayers' rallying cry to young writers
- Watch premiere: 8pm Denise Mina in conversation with true crime podcast RedHanded
Thursday
- Let's talk: Books that make you hopeful for the futue
- Take part: Mystery Treasure Hunt
- Take part: 12-2pm Share your book/lunch combo for #ReadingLunch(this will open in a new window)
- Watch premiere: 4pm Writing The Cutting Room with Louise Welsh
- Watch premiere: 8pm: New Suns, Different Futures: Speculative Fiction by People of Colour
Friday
- Let's talk: The book you always give to others
- Take part: Mystery Treasure Hunt
- Watch premiere: 10am Dr Yusef Salaam (of the Exonerated Five) and Ibi Zoboi on Punching the Air with Patrice Lawrence
- Watch premiere: 12:30pm See You in Ten Years with Val McDermid
- Take part: 4pm The Big Book Week Scotland Book Quiz
Saturday
- Let's talk: The best book covers you own #BookSwoonScotland(this will open in a new window)
- Watch premiere: 4pm Writing Disability in Fiction
Sunday
- Let's talk: The #BookWeekScotlandBookPledge(this will open in a new window)
- Watch premiere: 10:30am Futures, Connecting and Faith with Leila Aboulela and Nadine Aisha Jassat
- Watch premiere: 4pm To The Future with Love with Ruby Wax and Rutger Bregman