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Time for some magic, love and adventure @portylibrary as Gareth Brown is on Bluesky discusses his debut novel The Book of Doors with Kerry Harper, one of the organising team.

Nature, ritual and the physical environment as inspiration for writing and nurturing creativity. Alycia Pirmohamed and Claire Urquhart talk about encouraging others to write and to enjoy reading. Open Book Porty Library = Feeling less Summery! 🌞🥰

Heids Up launched at PortyBookFest Thanks to @mattyfairnie for hosting co author @markfleming62 for all his support and for Bill, Mar and everyone else at the festival Thanks to those who came along! Details on the book covering mental health and mental stories coming soon

Talking about Remarkable Bicycle Rides Porty Library = Feeling less Summery! 🌞🥰 now. Colin Salter (Colin Salter, author) is talking about his book with Jude Nixon.

Pleasure to talk to Gareth Brown is on Bluesky today after his event at PortyBookFest Review of #thebookofdoors Coming soon

Last event upstairs @portylibrary has Morven-May MacCallum MacCallum talking to Dr Marti Balaam about living with long term conditions.

It's already time for our final event of the weekend! Tommy Sheppard will be discussing Satnam Virdee's Britain in Fragments in front what's probably the biggest audience of the festival.

We had a wonderful time! Thanks so much for having us!

The festival is over for another year! Here's a selection of highlights from Sunday. A huge thanks to the fabulous staff at Porty Library = Feeling less Summery! 🌞🥰 and The Portobello Bookshop for all their support over the weekend. And of course to our brilliant authors, chairs and audience! instagram.com/reel/DA0PBbUo_…

Had the pleisure o chairin twa Scots Language book events ower the weekend Tam Clark’s Animal Fairm owersettin and Billy Kay’s Born in Kyle memoir. Baith selt-oot events, wi dizzens o books selt in the shop aifter. There’s a passionate audience oot there for Scots 🙌

Firmly believe that nae festival beats PortyBookFest for community engagement and informed and passionate audiences. And nae chair beats Alistair Heather. Full stop.

We had a terrific weekend and here's a selection of photos from Portobello Book Festival 2024 for you to have a look at. portobellobookfestival.com/2024/10/08/a-s…

What an amazing time I had in Portobello at PortyBookFest! It was incredibly moving to do the event in memory of Audrey Birt. Big thanks to all involved, to the wonderful Marti😊 #author #booklover #writer #writing #writerslife #lymedisease #lymewarrior #lyme #chronicillness

Thank you from the Portobello Book Festival organising team portobellobookfestival.com/2024/10/10/tha…

We're still here for now but you can also find us on Facebook (Portobello Book Festival), Instagram (porty.bookfest), and now BlueSky (portybookfest). Come and say hello!

Me and @markfleming62 met through the Changing Room from SAMH and have co-written a book! Heids Up, a collection of short stories and factual events, is available as an ebook now Cheers to midfield maestro Mark for doing all the graft 💚 amazon.com/dp/B0DPJGHL5Z

Come along to Porty Library = Feeling less Summery! 🌞🥰 for this crime writing event on 15 Apr at 6pm. You'll hear from myself and three other great crime authors about the behind the scenes processes of writing! See tomwoodwriter.co.uk/upcoming-events for more info. Admission is free. #crimewriting #truecrime