Paisley Book Festival

Paisley Book Festival has become a significant part of Scotland’s rich cultural landscape. This year’s excellent programme of writers taking part, including the 2020 Booker Prize Winner, Douglas Stuart, confirms its place as a favourite for both authors and audiences.

 

Over ten days, from Thursday 18 – Saturday 27 February 2021, you can listen to a fantastic array of writers from across the UK (and beyond) from the comfort of your own home. 

 

For every book sold through the Festival’s Bookshop.org page, 10% goes back to Paisley Book Festival, which will go towards promoting future programmes that will encourage reading across Renfrewshire and further afield.

Opening Event: Radical New Futures VIEW LIST (8 BOOKS)

Kirstin Innes and Outi Smith: Songs for a Scabby Queen

Old stories, New forms with Intan Paramaditha and Sarah Maria Griffin VIEW LIST (13 BOOKS)
Vivian French and The Giant's Tea Party VIEW LIST (9 BOOKS)
The Otherwhere Emporium with Ross Mackenzie VIEW LIST (4 BOOKS)
Hags, Hexes and Harpies with Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Rebecca Tamás VIEW LIST (22 BOOKS)

VIEW ALL 22 BOOKS

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The Heights of Lowbrow with Michael Lee Richardson and Tasha Suri VIEW LIST (7 BOOKS)
Scottish Masculinities with Douglas Stuart, Andrew O'Hagan and Graeme Armstrong VIEW LIST (11 BOOKS)

Nature Takeover with Yuval Zommer

Chris Brookmyre and Dr. Marisa Haetzman: UWS in Conversation with ‘Ambrose Parry’

Powering up Minds and Saving Lives through Gaming with Joe Donnelly

Words With Bite: Extra Teeth #3 Showcase

Poetic Offensive with Scottish PEN

Writing Dystopias VIEW LIST (14 BOOKS)

Imogen's Big Night In with Dean Atta, Iona Lee and Emme Woods

(What it Means) to Overcome: Poems and short stories with Charlie Gracie, Donal McLaughlin & Mairi Murphy

Sex Robots and Vegan Meat with Jenny Kleeman

Janet Coats Memorial Prize Giving

The Second Life: Celebrating Edwin Morgan with New Voices

Alex Gray and Diarmid MacArthur

The Fountain's Evening of Quarantine Dreaming

Silent Spring: A Creative Writing Workshop VIEW LIST (1 BOOKS)

Kapka Kassabova and Patrick Laurie: Stories of Land and Water

Radicalism in Stillness: Imogen Stirling in conversation with Sarah Grant

Janey Godley: Frank Get The Door

A Wee Bird Was Watching with Karine Polwart and Kate Leiper

Leaping into the Future with Patience Agbabi

Cal Flyn and Lisa Woollett: What We Leave Behind

Changing the Future in Graphic Form: Kate Charlesworth in Conversation with Val McDermid

Alastair McIntosh: Climate and Community

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