The Festival Bookshop, well stocked with our authors' works as well as other books of local interest, is the place to visit between festival events. It is where authors will be delighted to sign and dedicate copies of their books after their sessions, and is open from 10.00am until late each day for those who would rather browse than join a queue. Please check the board outside the Bookshop for when signings are scheduled. All proceeds from the Bookshop go directly back to the Book Festival.
In the same marquee as the Box Office and Bookshop is Marmion's Café Bar, where you can enjoy a tempting selection of teas, coffees, snacks, mouth-watering cakes, chilled white wines, full reds, soft drinks and other delights. If you would like to buy a bottle of wine to take into a session simply order it from the Café Bar.
A welcome newcomer this year will be the Scottish Borders Brewery, serving two of their just launched, plough-to-pint real Borders ales on all four days of the festival. And on Saturday and Sunday, you can visit the Over Langshaw Farmhouse ice cream stand, and treat yourself to locally made delicious luxury ice cream and sorbets which come in a range of mouthwatering flavours.
Harmony Garden will once again be the beautiful backdrop to a sculpture exhibition mounted by the members of the Borders Sculptors collective. For more information about the collective, visit www.bordersculptors.org.
Be ready to go on air with Radio Borders, who will be broadcasting interviews with authors and audiences throughout the festival. ITV Border will also have a festival presence, with lots of material to report on in their nightly news bulletins.
Children as well as adults will enjoy the Family Book Festival, a riot of weekend noise and colour. And our Family Day Passes are a real bargain – book early! Our two chosen charities this year are Book Aid International and the Borders Children's Charity, both hugely deserving causes. Information about them will be available in the Festival Bookshop, and there will be plenty of opportunities for you to donate. We are delighted to assist.
We believe your festival experience in Harmony Garden will be better than ever. Please come and prove us right.
Please note that Harmony Garden is a National Trust For Scotland property and no dogs are permitted except hearing and guide dogs.
We employ a roving photographer who takes photographs of events, garden and visitors during the Book Festival for promotional use.
