2017: Music and Art, the War Poets, and forays into bookselling and evaluation sessions.
Innovations this year included Aberdeen academic Neil McLennan’s marking of the centenary of the meeting of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon at Baberton Golf Club. We celebrated it in the newly-rebuilt clubhouse.
Noted Scots writers James Robertson, Sara Sheridan, Denise Mina, and Doug Johnstone all took part in the Festival, and Alan Lucas organized an exhibition of the paintings of Juniper Green resident, the late Edwin Lucas: his father.
We added more music with the launch of San Ghanny’s book and CD. They sang and talked about their trip to Palestine.
Crawford Logan and Martin Bone staged a most entertaining mock radio broadcast of Paul Temple, with committee members taking the leading parts.
To evaluate our programme we offered free tickets for discussion sessions and “Tea at Three” at both Molly’s and Currie’s Corner Café on selected post-festival dates. Lighthouse Bookshop undertook some bookselling at events.
Pentlands Book Festival: 6 Nov - 3 Dec 2025 