Welcome To Book Nation
Welcome to Book Nation. With around 40 literary festivals, including the world's largest, the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Scotland has the most per capita anywhere, and a combined audience of 400,000. No other nation turns out in such numbers to listen to writers, ask questions, argue and buy their books.
Book Nation is a new enterprise that will create a network of author events in towns and cities all over the country, from Shetland to Wigtown that taps into the well established resources and expertise of our book festival partners. We will mount a programme of year-round author tours, giving audiences in Scotland an opportunity to see world-renowned names, and upcoming and exciting talents as they talk about their very latest work.
Book Nation's Alistair Moffat with Robert Winston and Margaret Drabble. Pic: Writer Pictures
About Book Nation
All of Scotland's book festivals have their place in the calendar, a database of supporters, venues, staff and volunteers, means of selling tickets and good local links with press and media. Book Nation is a partnership of all the festivals (and a few other organisations active in promoting literature) using all these skills and facilities to mount special author events outside of their normal dates.
For details of Scotland's book festivals and their annual events programmes, visit the Bookfestival Scotland website.
Book Nation is funded by the VisitScotland Growth Fund, Creative Scotland through the National Lottery and Scottish Borders Council. Book Nation is also supported by media partner, The Scotsman.
News
British literary greats helped launch Book Nation at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on the 19th August. Margaret Drabble and Robert Winston were at the Party Pavilion to drink a toast to the new enterprise and more than that, to launch it with style. On the evening of Wednesday 18th August in Dundee the first event played to packed audiences as more than 500 came to hear Robert Winston give a fascinating talk on the ethics of scientific innovation. On Friday 20th August Margaret Drabble was in St Andrews talking to a rapt audience about the latest edition of her new book, 'A Writers' Britain' and the following evening she appeared in Melrose.
At the launch Alistair Moffat said that Book Nation was a natural development from Scotland's prodigious appetite for book festivals. There are now 42 each year and they cover the country, from Shetland to Wigtown. Many new author events are planned as the organisers roll out their schedule. By the next Edinburgh International Book Festival, no-one will be in any doubt that Scotland is the world's Book Nation.
Join Us
If you are a publisher or literary agent and would like to discuss Book Nation tour opportunities,
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If you are thinking of mounting a book festival or are interested in becoming a Book Nation partner, please contact us.
Paula Ogilvie
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or Linsey McGillivray
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T. 07815 662646
