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 festival 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.