About

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What is the Pentlands Book Festival?

The Pentlands Book Festival is an annual festival with talks by local authors held in local venues. It runs each autumn and coincides with Book Week Scotland and is organised by local people for the community in conjunction with Currie and Colinton Libraries.

The Pentlands Book Festival has been going since 2015.

Events are free, with an opportunity to donate, and are held at Currie and Colinton Libraries and various other locations locally. Each event lasts approximately one hour.

PBF 2025 Authors

POSt artists PechaKucha

Sandra Ireland

Craig Robertson and Alexandra Sokoloff

Museum of Musical Instruments

Gordon Lawrie

Dragon Song Productions

Stuart Johnstone

Elspeth MacGregor

Sana Faqir

Local Authors

Gavin Francis

Richard Wiseman

Rebecca Lawrence

Edinburgh Museums Collection centre

Caro Ramsay

Fiona Valpy

Denise Mina

Tony Black

Hannah Lavery

Janis Mackay

PBF 2024 Authors

Alan Bissett

David Greig

Kate Foster

Derek Forbes

Nicholas Kinloch

Billy Kay

Allan Little

Marsali Taylor

Linda Cracknell

Local Authors

Lin Anderson

RCPE Archive Visit

Graeme Johncock

The 2025 festival was kindly sponsored and supported by:

  • Pentland Community Chest
  • Pentlands Community Grant Fund
  • Scotmid
  • Scottish Book Trust