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Borders Children's Charity Fundraiser
Melrose Waverly Tennis Club presents a fundraising evening on behalf of the Borders Children's Charity with Dr Andrew Murray, ultra-marathoner, adventurer and endurance runner. Andy is a man of many achievements, his most recent is winning the 2012 Ice Marathon in Antarctica; he’ll definitely have some interesting stories to tell…
Event Spotlight - Sir Sandy McStanley AKA John Sessions!
Event Spotlight - Penny Junor
Event Spotlight - Alexander McCall Smith
Alexander McCall Smith joins us on the opening night of the Festival, Thursday 13th June, to both celebrate the 15th anniversary of his much loved character, Precious Ramotswe, and to introduce the 13th book in the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series; The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection…
Event Spotlight - Kate Mosse
Event Spotlight - Simon Scarrow
Live Streaming - Neil Oliver
Tickets for Neil Oliver have just sold out, but no fear, all is not lost! Even though we’re completely sold out in the Festival Marquee, it’s still possible to enjoy this event, as we will be live-streaming it to The Davidson Chalmers Storytelling Tent, within Harmony Garden...
Event Spotlight - Helen McGinn
Event Spotlight - Sam Leith
Family Book Festival Programme Update
In a change to the previously listed event (Annabel Pitcher and Eleanor Updale) we’re thrilled to welcome former Children’s Laureate, Anne Fine, to team up with fellow award-winning author Eleanor Updale as they discuss their latest books for young adults...
Event Spotlight - Claire Macdonald
Live Streaming of Events
Tickets are selling fast! We have 4 events sold out at this point, but do not fear, we will be live streaming 3 of them from marquees within Harmony Garden, for tickets click on the names... Joanna Lumley - Stella Rimington - Hilary Mantel
Event Spotlight - Phyllida Law
Phyllida Law is one of Scotland’s best actresses, and also mother to actresses Emma and Sophie Thompson. She has recently taken to writing and How Many Camels are there in Holland? is her second book…
Event Spotlight - Gary Mulgrew
Gang of One is the remarkable true story of one man’s journey from a Glasgow orphanage to a notorious gang-infested prison in Texas. Driven by his desire to return to his son in England and haunted by the increasingly frustrating search for his missing daughter, Gary attempts the impossible task of surviving the prison’s gang culture...
Live Streaming of Stella Rimington Event
Tickets for Stella Rimington have now sold out, but we’re delighted to tell you that we’ll be live streaming the event to the Davidson Chalmers Storytelling tent within Harmony Garden, at the reduced rate of £8...
Buy ticketsEvent Spotlight - Hilary Mantel
Two time winner of the Man Booker Prize, not many authors can say that! We’re in for a treat on Friday 14 June as Hilary Mantel joins us to talk about her life in writing and her latest publication, Bring up the Bodies). Oh - And did we mention, she’s also just been nominated for her second Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction!
Live streaming of Joanna Lumley event
Although tickets are completely sold out in the Festival Marquee, we’re delighted to announce that the event will be live-streamed from within the grounds at Harmony Garden, in both the Lochcarron Marquee and the Davidson Chalmers Storytelling Tent – at a reduced price of £8 – tickets will sell quickly, so please buy now to avoid disappointment!
Follow our Authors on Twitter!
We've searched through the programme and trawled through the Twittersphere to see which of our authors are tweeting - click their names on the list and you can follow them too! Let us know if you come across anyone we've missed!
Event Spotlight - Gavin Francis: Empire Antarctica
Programme launched!
The Brewin Dolphin Borders Book Festival programme was launched on Thursday 11th April at Marmions Brasserie in Melrose. Arabella Brett and Sive Laurie who were both born the same year as the Festival, helped celebrate the programme announcement by blowing out the candles on our cake! Pictured alongside them is Festival chairman, Francis Hamilton with directors Alistair Moffat and Paula Ogilvie…
A Perfect 10!
It's all about the stars...
In 2012 we were lucky enough to have visual artist, Janie Nicoll as our first ‘Artist in Residence’; you’ll see her work featured on this year’s programme cover and we’ll also be displaying it around Harmony Garden during the Festival…
Absolutely Fabulous!
Absolutely Fabulous! Joanna Lumley is certainly synonymous with that phrase – the 2013 Borders Book Festival is lucky enough to have Joanna join us for two events on Saturday June 15th…
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