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From gentle sleuthing in Dumfries and Galloway with Epiphanies and Robberies by David Graham Clark to the Linlithgow legal thriller Relatively Guilty by William McIntyre [...]

Bookbug with Paul Hudson featuring special guest author Maggie Byrd, reading from her brilliant book Rainbow Cookies. Part of Portobello Book Festival 2026, Library Downstairs. [...]

Led by award winning local stage and screen writer Xana Marwick

Would you turn back time if you could? Is the past always as we remember it? Would you change something in your past and how [...]

Inspired by the 19th century lyric poet, modernist and flaneur Charles Baudelaire, and the Bob Dylan/Leonard Cohen of France, troubadour/bard, George Brassens, Anne Pia draws [...]

1st XV (Men) - Arnold Clark East Region League Division 1 (Men's), Round 4

To what extent has devolution been a success? What opportunities and challenges lie ahead? James Mitchell, co-author with Henry McLeish of Unfinished Business: The Evolution [...]

Voices from across the LGBTQ+ diaspora come together to share their thoughts on all things literary: Cameron Wyllie (Is there a Pigeon in My Room?), [...]

Doug Johnstone has been a stalwart of Portobello Book Festival. He has written 20 novels in 20 years, including his Skelf series, featuring a family [...]

Join us for an evening of storytelling at PortaLibri with Janis Mackay storyteller and author (On a Northern Shore), storyteller Alice Fernbank and Svend Erik [...]