The Festival Bookshop is bigger and better this year. Authors will be delighted to sign and dedicate copies of their books after their sessions, and the shop 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.
Just next door to the Box Office and Bookshop, in Marmion’s Café Bar, you can enjoy a tempting selection of teas, coffees, savouries, 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 our Café Bar.
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 will be made even more beautiful by a sculpture exhibition mounted by the members of the Borders Sculptors collective. For more information about the collective ,visit www.bordersculptors.org.
From 10am till 5pm on Sunday 20 June, the annual Scottish Borders Book Fair returns to the Corn Exchange, Melrose, with a great selection of antiquarian and second hand books, maps and prints for sale.
Radio Borders will be broadcasting throughout the Festival, interviewing authors and audiences. In the run up to the Festival, ITV Border will be previewing events in their nightly news bulletins. And there will be plenty to report on.
The Family Book Festival will add colour and noise, with events that adults will also enjoy. For the second year, the Festival's chosen charities are Book Aid International and the Children's Hospice Association Scotland. You can find out more about them over the Festival weekend and if you would like to make a donation, look out for their collection buckets in the Festival Bookshop.
Right up until Donnie Munro and his band play the closing concert on Sunday night, Harmony Garden will quite simply be the place to be.
