Two special events in November
21st September 2018Yesterday we announced two exciting new events for the autumn. Jeff Kinney, author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, and bestselling writer of The Essex Serprent, Sarah Perry, both come to...
ReimagiNation brings the New Towns to the Book Festival
2nd August 2018Alongside some of the biggest names in global literature, sport and politics, we're thrilled to bring the voices of Scotland's New Towns to the stage as part of our ReimagiNation events at the...
ReimagiNation: Livingston – On the Buses
11th July 2018Daniel Gray shares sights and stories from a day spent exploring West Lothian's New Town by bus and speaking to fellow travellers....
ReimagiNation: Livingston – Moving Voices
4th July 2018Daniel Gray leads the final stage of our tour of Scotland's New Towns. He's been speaking to Livingston locals at various locations and events, finding out about life in the area. Here he...
Success in Glenrothes
22nd May 2018See photos and read all about our latest ReimagiNation festival in Fife's New Town, Glenrothes....
Glenrothes from the Sky
8th May 2018Get a bird's eye view of the history of Glenrothes and of the nation as author and presenter of Scotland from the Sky, James Crawford takes to the air......
The Making of Glenrothes
4th May 2018Find out what the National Library of Scotland are bringing to Glenrothes as we celebrate 70 years of Scotland's New Towns....
Livingston, Let’s Talk
23rd April 2018Join in with community conversations around Livingston over the coming weeks and make your voice heard on the last stage of our ReimagiNation tour of Scotland's New Towns....
Reimagining Glenrothes’ Public Art
12th April 2018Check out these gorgeously illustrated activities based around some of Glenrothes' notable public art, created by Edinburgh College of Art students with primary school pupils from Glenrothes....
Gathering Glenrothes’ Stories
10th April 2018Writer and TV historian Daniel Gray is leading our ongoing ReimagiNation residency in Glenrothes, which sees him work with local teenagers and adults to distil their tales of life in the town acros...
New Passages: Nalini Paul pt 2
21st February 2018Following an initial writing residency on the Isle of Lewis in August 2017 – reflections on which you can read on this site – last month novelist Abir Mukherjee and poet Nalini Paul travelled t...
New Passages: Abir Mukherjee pt 2
19th February 2018Following an initial writing residency on the Isle of Lewis in August 2017 – reflections on which you can read on this site – last month novelist Abir Mukherjee and poet Nalini Paul travelled t...
New Passages: Sampurna Chattarji
16th February 2018The following piece is the first response from Sampurna Chattarji, a poet, novelist, translator and children’s author of fourteen published titles. She is currently the Poetry Editor of The India...
New Passages: Sandip Roy
16th February 2018Following an initial writing residency on the Isle of Lewis in August 2017 – reflections on which you can read on this site – last month novelist Abir Mukherjee and poet Nalini Paul travelled t...
New Passages: From Edinburgh to Kolkata
11th January 2018Last August we launched New Passages, a special year-long project commemorating the 70th anniversary both of Indian independence and partition and of Edinburgh becoming a Festival City, in partners...
Unlocking Literature in Scotland’s Prisons
8th January 2018A highlight of the year-round Booked! programme, our work in Scotland’s prisons has been stimulating and rewarding for offenders, authors and staff alike. Here, Projects Manager Casi Dylan consider...
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Is this your Glenrothes?
30th November 2017We’ve been asking past and present residents of Glenrothes to share their feelings on the town and their lives in it, as well as their hopes and fears for the future, as we prepare to head to Fife ...
Tell us about Glenrothes
13th October 2017Glenrothes was designated as Scotland’s second post-war New Town in 1948, and in the spring of 2018 we’ll be marking this 70th anniversary by taking our ReimagiNation tour to the town, culminating ...
New Passages: Nalini Paul
13th October 2017In August we launched New Passages, a year-long project commemorating the 70th anniversary of Indian independence and partition, in partnership with An Lanntair in Stornoway and Apeejay Kolkata Lit...
New Passages: Abir Mukherjee
11th October 2017In August we launched New Passages, a year-long project commemorating the 70th anniversary of Indian independence and partition, in partnership with An Lanntair in Stornoway and Apeejay Kolkata Lit...
On the road in August
20th September 2017Our Booked! programme in August was the biggest we have delivered yet. Making the most of the fantastic authors who join us in Edinburgh for the Book Festival, we toured to three towns and cities w...
Superstar authors arrive in autumn
5th September 2017As well as taking the Edinburgh International Book Festival around the country throughout the year, Booked! brings major book events to Edinburgh beyond August too – and this autumn we’re hosting e...
The Book Fest on Tour
19th August 2017In a previous post on this blog, historian and writer Daniel Gray said he has found that Scotland ‘oozes stories’. Booked!, the travelling programme of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, in...
Unbound in Irvine
3rd August 2017Books might not make you think loud and lively, but Unbound is just that — a thrilling cabaret-style event with live music, hilarious and haunting readings from authors often showing new sides to...
Unbound in East Kilbride
2nd August 2017Books might not make you think loud and lively, but Unbound is just that — a thrilling cabaret-style event with live music, hilarious and haunting readings from authors often showing new sides to...