Congratulations to David Francis, a great friend of the festival, who has been presented with this year's Hamish Henderson Award for Services to Traditional Music at the Scots Trad Awards. Well deserved David!

A selection of photos from Portobello Book Festival 2025 The organising team had a fantastic weekend and hope you enjoyed any events that you came to. Do let us know what you thought of the festival. Here are a selection of photos from the weekend. We don't seem to have any photos of the Democracy…

Thank you from the Portobello Book Festival organising team! Photo by Vie Studio on Pexels.com The 2025 Portobello Book Festival was a great success and we hope you all enjoyed it as much as we did. Over the weekend, despite Storm Amy, Portobello Book Festival attracted hundreds of people to the…

We've had a fantastic weekend. Here's a wee flavour of Sunday's events. www.instagram.com/reel/DPf8oBO...

Thoroughly enjoyed @portybookfest.bsky.social yesterday. The Unheard Voices panel showed writing's power to build community, especially during tough times. Brilliant contributions from fellow writers @stephenchristopher.bsky.social & Jim Aitken & chair Debbie Menezes. Thanks to all who came.

Day 2 was fantastic. See you all tomorrow for our ten events on day 3! www.instagram.com/reel/DPZgxQ9...

Day one done ✅ www.instagram.com/reel/DPXFrQy...

Event cancellation – Graphic Novel Builder Unfortunately the Graphic Novel Builder workshop due to take place on Friday afternoon has had to be cancelled. Apologies for any disappointment or inconvenience caused.

Storm Amy may be going to bring wind and rain this weekend but it will be warm and dry in the library! Come along to hear fabulous authors talk about their books at Portobello Library at Portobello Book Festival. portobellobookfestival.com/2025/09/05/t...

It’s almost time for the 2025 Portobello Book Festival! In just a few days, this year's festival will kick off with our first event The Busy-Bodies: A Portobello Tale at midday on Friday at Portobello Library. On Friday and Saturday, most events will be upstairs in the library, as the library will…

A wee reminder that the Portobello Book Festival is coming up soon. It starts a week tomorrow. All events are free to attend and you can still pick up tickets from the library. portobellobookfestival.com/2025/09/05/t...

Portobello Book Festival 2025 – Ticket Update With just under two weeks to go until the 2025 Portobello Book Festival, here is an update about tickets. Tickets are going fast with some events already fully booked and some with only a handful left. However, there are PLENTY of tickets left and…

A great prog at this year’s @portybookfest.bsky.social I’ll be in the Unheard Voices panel, talking about unheard voices in Salvage. First & foremost the Traveller kids taken from their families but also the unheard voices of old generations of my Traveller family, which inspire me to write

Portobello Book Festival begins at the end of next week, running from Friday 3rd to Sunday 5th October! 📚🥳 We’ll be along at Portobello Library with a book stall and you can check out the festival’s programme here: portobellobookfestival.com/2025/09/05/t... @portybookfest.bsky.social

Books by participating authors available to buy from The Portobello Bookshop  Books by all our participating authors (and chairs if applicable) will be available to buy from a pop-up bookshop at the library during the festival run by the lovely people from our local independent bookshop, The…

Tickets for this year’s festival are now available from Portobello Library @portylibrary If you have been having a look through the programme for this year’s Portobello Book Festival and noting down the events you would like to see, then NOW is the time to get yourself down to the library! Tickets…

Have you had a look through our fabulous programme yet? Free tickets available from Portobello Library this Saturday from 10am! 💙📚

The 2025 Portobello Book Festival Programme is now available! Portobello Book Festival: 3rd – 5th October 2025Tickets for all events are free and available from Portobello Library The programme for this year’s festival was officially launched at the library last night. Copies are now available to…

Sneak peek of the 2025 Portobello Book Festival Programme! We can’t wait to show you all what’s in store 😊💙📚 #bookfestival #library

Programmes and tickets for Portobello Book Festival 2025 coming soon! We are delighted to say that programmes and tickets will be available soon for our 2025 festival. The programme will be officially launched in early September and will be available to pick up in the library, The Portobello…

Save the Date! The 2025 Portobello Book Festival will run from 3rd to 5th October. portobellobookfestival.com/2025/02/24/s...

As a huge lover of audiobooks, getting the audio version of The List of Suspicious Things right - ESPECIALLY the accents - was so so important to me. I’m so lucky to have worked with the most amazing team at Penguin audiobooks & now it’s in the best crime & thriller audiobooks of the year! #booksky

Happy Monday all! A freezing but beautiful day in Edinburgh Big challenge for me today (apart from staying warm) is staying off Bluesky for longer than 10 minutes! 🙈 #Edinburgh #Scotland

It's Bookweek Scotland! 🥳 This annual celebration of books and reading takes place across the country. To mark the week, I'll be highlighting two brilliant Scottish books each day First up Paper Cup by @writerkcampbell.bsky.social and Hear No Evil by @citizensarahsmith.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙

Hello BlueSky - we are here! What's everyone #reading just now? Joanne from our organising team is reading about #Edinburgh's historical literary connections. Just in time for #bookweekscotland #scottishbooktrust #books #bookSky 💙📚