Press Releases

Up-to-date news from the Book Festival press office will be posted here as we have it. Please browse the latest and archive press releases below.

ReimagiNation: Cumbernauld - Sharing Stories

ReimagiNation: Cumbernauld - Sharing Stories
Tue 30 May 2017

Last week Edinburgh International Book Festival celebrated 60 years of Cumbernauld alongside creative partner CultureNL. The three-day Festival, entitled ReimagiNation, included the culmination of creative residencies with both the younger and the older residents of the town by author Mike Nicholson and people’s historian Daniel Gray…

ReimagiNation: Cumbernauld - A New Festival for a New Town This Weekend

ReimagiNation: Cumbernauld - A New Festival for a New Town This Weekend
Tue 16 May 2017

The Edinburgh International Book Festival’s new Festival – ReimagiNation: Cumbernauld is just a few days away. The Festival, which runs from Friday 19 to Sunday 21 May is the first in a five-stop tour of Scotland’s New Towns in 2017 and 2018 and offers great events, fascinating writers, brilliant books and plenty of experiences for all ages to enjoy…