📣Fancy being a part of our Front of House Team for the 2024 Book Festival?

We're looking for:
📚Front of House Supervisors
📚Front of House Assistants

Find the job descriptions and how to apply here: vist.ly/wzwk

Applications close 2 June 2024

Thanks to everyone who came to visit our stall at the North Edinburgh Community Festival this Saturday. What a sunny day for it.

Our Communities team were there, handing out free books, and our Citizen Adult Writers group led a storytelling boardgame workshop in the North Edinburgh Arts tent 📚

Happy Friday! 🌞

Tell us about your favourite YA book in the comments 👇 #YABookPrize

'I'm not young enough to know everything.'

J.M. Barrie, Scottish novelist and playwright best known for writing Peter Pan, was born on this day in 1860!

Would you have reposted this quicker than us? Our friends at Push The Boat Out are hiring!

Watch Louise Welsh in conversation with Jenny Niven director of Edinburgh International Book Festival in an evening exploring the nuances of genre, creative processess, & the influence of Scottish culture on their work.

Book here for Monday 20 May, 18:00: rse.org.uk/whats-on/event…

If you could meet any fictional book character, who would you like to meet? 📚

The Bookseller Edinburgh International Book Festival #YABookPrize

Just added: Yomi Adegoke will be joining Dolly Alderton in conversation as part of The Front List this August

🎟️ Tickets: vist.ly/34v2c

#TheFrontList

Last night we kicked off the 2024 programme of pop-up events with a brilliantly evoking discussion around Maggie & Me with Damian Barr and James Ley at The Mitchell Library 🎭

Check out more of our exciting events to come at glasgowlife.org.uk/whats-on/aye-w…

Our friends at the Edinburgh Jazz & Blues festival have launched their 2024 programme and we can't wait! ejbf.co.uk/ejbf-24

Tickets land TOMORROW! 🎟️🎷

Scottish author Jenni Fagan and New Zealand poet essa may ranapiri have been chosen for the inaugural Island to Island residency exchange 👇 thebookseller.com/news/jenni-fag…

⭐Exciting news ⭐ We’ve appointed our first ever Citizen Trainee Writers-in-Residence: Lintong Zhang and Adanna Hannah. These emerging artists will be working with us to support early career writers through our year-round Communities programme.

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Some of our April highlights featuring a trip to visit Dornoch Academy Reading School, an avalanche of @bookbug_sbt Bag submissions, the launch of the Edinburgh International Book Festival programme from schools and more, in our photo dump for April! 📸👇

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We're thrilled to host Louise Welsh in conversation with Jenny Niven director of Edinburgh International Book Festival for a conversation on creativity, genre, and Scottish influence in literature.

Book here to secure your ticket: rse.org.uk/whats-on/event…

Never feel bad about purchasing too many books... you're just practicing 'Tsundoku'.
(n.) a Japanese word for the practice of buying lots of books and not reading them so they pile up around your home.

Take a look at this fun article all about Tsundoku: vist.ly/33j5c

What a day! We're super excited that we've had such an enthusiastic response to The Front List. Richard Osman is currently sold out and there are limited tickets available for Alan Cumming & Forbes Masson. All other events are selling fast. #TheFrontList

⭐️ Dolly Alderton at Edinburgh International Book Festival ! ⭐️

Hear about #GoodMaterial - a very modern novel about class and comedy, heartbreak, male friendship, and why you should always seek to find the other side of the story

14/08/2024
Tickets on sale now: bit.ly/3Udp7kb