Welcome
The West Port is Edinburgh’s Soho, a heady mix of books, bespoke-tailoring, booze and bosoms. Six bookshops, one bookbinder, it would almost be churlish not to celebrate this profusion of pages…
The West Port Book Festival runs free events throughout the year, which take place in an intriguing assortment of local venues, from singular secondhand bookshops to comfy pubs and cavernous performing arts spaces.
This year’s main festival will run from 13th - 16th August and the programme will be launched on the 11th July. As well as featuring the usual selection of fine authors, ranging from gifted young poets to Catullus-obsessed bibliophiles, we’ll be celebrating magic, crisps, twitterings and fantastic old books.