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Nick Barley, Director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival made a staement today announcing that the 2020 event will not go ahead due to...

With weeks of lockdown stretching ahead it’s the ideal time for young people to exercise their imaginations by entering Dumfries and Galloway’s own children’s...

David Walliams is the biggest selling children’s author to have started writing since the year 2000, he’s sold over thirty-five million books worldwide! Since Monday...

The Big DoG children’s book festival in Dumfries has been cancelled due to Covid-19.The event was due to take place at venues across Dumfries...

Big DoG is off the leash and bounding back to Dumfries to unveil the programme for his next children’s book festival.For the past few...

The annual £1,500 international Wigtown Poetry Prize – which celebrates Scotland’s three indigenous languages – is now open for entries.As Scotland’s international poetry prize...

Author and poet Michael Rosen starred in the first ever Authors Live broadcast with BBC Scotland, and he returns to Pacific Quay for a...

Blue Peter, in partnership with BookTrust, the UK’s largest children’s reading charity, will celebrate 20 years of brilliant children’s books by asking the audience...

Moat Brae in Dumfries, The Birth place of Peter Pan will host its first ever book launch since opening as the National Centre for...

Scottish Book Trust has today revealed the winner of the 2020 Bookbug Picture Book Prize is The Station Mouse by Meg McLaren (Anderson Press)....