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Hundreds of events for adults, teenagers and children feature authors, illustrators, musicians, poets, policians, thinkers, prize-winners and rising stars every August.
In the 100 years since Hugh MacDiarmid first appeared in print, the poet’s reputation has soared and dived: was he the greatest cultural revolutionary in modern Scotland or the symbol of everything hideously wrong with the nation? Join researcher...
Explore the work of one of Scotland’s greatest 20th century poets with literature professor Alan Riach, novelist James Robertson and researcher Fiona Paterson. Christopher Murray Grieve, best known under his pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid, produced some of...
The line-up for the 2022 Book Festival is revealed 
