Book Week Scotland
17–23 November 2025
Book Week Scotland is an annual celebration of books and reading, supported by Creative Scotland and SLIC.
More about Book Week ScotlandHere's everything that happened during the event
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A Little Party Never Killed Anybody.
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An Evening With Doug Johnstone
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Battlefield Writers Book Launch - Glasgow Tales
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Bishopbriggs Library Talks: Don Taylor & Julie McNeill
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Book Week Scotland – Battlefield Writers Book Launch
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Connection Through Cooking
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Creative Writing with Open Book: Community Friendship
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Creative Writing with Open Book: Formative Friendships
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Creative Writing with Open Book: Friends for Life
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Creative Writing with Open Book: Unexpected Friendships
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Friendship in Dark Academia
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Friendship, resistance and poetry
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Gavin Francis: The Bridge Between Worlds – a Brief History of Connection
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Jennifer Morag Henderson at Forres Library
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Kevan Christie Author Talk
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Lin Anderson at Newington Library
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Living Memory: A Trans Masc Archive
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Meet the Author Stuart McHardy
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Morag Hood at Greenock Library
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Publishing: An Author's Perspective with Helen Grant
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Resistance = Solidarity = (Platonic) Love – A Radio Show
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Scriever and Freens Tour: A Freendly Match wi Hamish McDonald
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Scriever and Freens Tour: Hamecoming Hailin wi Shane Strachan and Susi Briggs
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Ten Minute Tales of Friendship
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Westerton Library Talks: Book Week Scotland with Allan Gaw
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Writing for Wellbeing with Lapidus Scotland Writer Bev Schofield
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Writing What Remains: A Reading & Writing Workshop with Alison Jean Lester
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Alice Tarbuck Poetry Workshop
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An evening with Caro Ramsay
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Author Visit - Natalie Fergie
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Book Week Scotland 2025 Book Quiz at Pollokshaws Library
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Book Week Scotland 2025 Book Quiz at the Mitchell Library
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Christopher Brookmyre and Dr Marisa Haetzman at West Calder Library
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Dr Sandy Winterbottom at Loch Leven Community Library
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Every Picture Tells a Story: Writing from Art
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Fiona Valpy Author Talk
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Harry Fisher talks Crime Thrillers at Aberlour Library
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Indie Authors share approaches to Success
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Indie Authors Share Their Different Models of Success
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Karen Campbell - This Bright Life
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Love and Other Poisons with Lesley McDowell
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Medicine to Murder: A Pathologist’s Journey to Crime Fiction
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Mind Magic with Richard Wiseman
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Never Argue with a Matron
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Paper Birds
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Pitch It! Hannah Lavery in conversation with Jim Monaghan
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Poetry Workshop with Ann Mackinnon at Bishopbriggs Library
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Quick as a Flash - Flash Fiction Writing Workshop
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Readings of Friendship at Dunbar Library
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Sara Sheridan - Jane Austen and I
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Scriever and Freens Tour: Findin Oor Feet wi Ely Percy
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Scriever and Freens Tour: Mary Brooksbank: Her Life, Her Legacy
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Seabirds and Seals: Stories From 25 Years of Wildlife Guiding
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Unlikely Friendships at North Berwick Library
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Writers in Wonderland with Carolyn Hashimoto
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A Conversation With T.F. Muir
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An Evening With Allan Gaw
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An Improbable Psychiatrist: Rebecca Lawrence
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Bookbug at Bridge of Don Library
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Can You Hear Me? Finding Your Audience with Don Taylor
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Celebrating Winter with Val McDermid
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East Lothian Poem of Friendship
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Flash Fiction on Friendship
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Folklore, Fables and Ballads
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Gerry Durkin - Singing and Storytelling for Children
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Jennifer S. Read Author Talk
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Lego Club: Build Together – Friendship Edition
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Letters to My Weird Sisters: Joanne Limburg in Conversation with Elspeth Wilson
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Make an illustrated friendship book
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Meet your Local Author at Dunoon Library
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Mindfulness with Eleanor Gibson
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Open Mic Celebrating Friendship
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Scriever and Freens Tour: Auld Leid, New Freens wi Billy Kay
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Scriever and Freens Tour: Familiar Forms wi Colin Bramwell
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TALK: Making The Monster! Dr Kathryn Harkup
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The Malt Whisky Murders with Natalie Jayne Clark
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Trial by Jury with Mark Bridgeman
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Writing Workshop
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An Evening with Crime Writer Daniel Sellers
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An Evening with Fiona Gibson
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An Evening with Marion Todd
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An evening with Quintin Jardine
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Book Blether
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Bookbug at Children's Library
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Bookbug Session: Meet & Greet - Friendship Edition
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Book Cafe with Maureen Cullen
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Book Week Scotland 2025 Book Quiz at Dennistoun Library
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Book Week Scotland Book Quiz at Partick Library
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Caro Ramsay: Tartan Noir - Crime and Mystery from Glasgow to the Highlands
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Celebrating the Short Story with Anne Marie Lyall
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Chris McQueer - Hermits
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Edinburgh Museums Collection Centre: Making Edinburghers Gallus Again
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Heather Critchlow at Loch Leven Community Library
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Ibrox Library - Crime Author Panel Event
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Iomall by Alistair Paul
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Join us for an evening with local author Allan Martin!
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Mark Simmons Author Talk - Six Victims in Search of an Audience
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Medicine to Murder & An Unbreakable Bond
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Memoir – The Value of Friendships with Mary Brown
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One Button Benny with Alan Windram
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Quick as a Flash ✍️ Flash Fiction Writing Workshop with Pat Feehan
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Reading and Empathy with Professor Louise Philips
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SkyeLit with Alan Bissett
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The Big Inverclyde Book Quiz - For Kids!
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The Pleasures and Power of Reading with Graeme Macrae Burnet
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Writing in Place and Time: Creativity Writing Workshop
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And the Shepherd Sang
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BAD TASTE: Queer Horror and Cake
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Bookbug at Cove Library
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Book Week Scotland Quiz at Dunoon Library
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Friends Recalled: A Memoir Workshop
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Grandparents story time
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Making Friends With Children's Fiction, A Morning with Paula Andrews
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Meet the Author Philip McNally
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Nan Shepherd and her friends
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Never Argue with a Matron
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Never Argue with a Matron: Adventures in 20th Century Nursing
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Poems for a Friend in Need w/Patricia Ace
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Polish and English Storytelling Session
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Quick as a Flash - Flash Fiction Writing Workshop with Pat Feehan
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Soil Song with Max Coleman and JL Williams
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StAnza presents Hame-ish Live
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The Dead and the Dying with Lin Anderson
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The Good Liar with Denise Mina
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The Scottish Christmas Book Fair
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Wrecked on the Isle of Bute
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Writing in Scots
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A Cuppa and a Good Book
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A History of Fashion – For Everyone
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Comic Making Workshop with L.D Lapinski
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Entre cuentos, copuchas y comadreos: our stories of friendship and migration
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Fiona Valpy: Secrets Uncovered - Stories of Love, Loss and Bravery
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Friendship - A writing workshop
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Friendship Storytime at North Berwick Library
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How to Kill a Witch with Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi
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James Oswald Author Talk
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Magical Map-making with L.D Lapinski
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Making Friends with Monsters
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Partaidh Thìgearan / Tiger Tea Party
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Rachelle Atalla at Cumbernauld Library
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Robin Crawford Author Talk
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Simon King-Spooner Author Talk
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Stories, Crafts & Culture with June Graham
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The Little Writer Journey
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The Scottish Christmas Book Fair
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The Writers Gathering
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'To see ourselves' with Alistair Moffat
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Walking Through the Unseen World, with Anthony Capildeo
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Aonghas & Alasdair with Gerda Stevenson and Peter Mackay
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Elisabeth Gifford on Daphne Du Maurier
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The Pleasures and Power of Reading with Peter Mackay
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Writing Friendship and Allyship in Historical Fiction with Anbara Salam
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