West Port Book Festival

Donations!

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:06:33 GMT

A huge thank you to everyone who has donated money to this year's book festival. Every donation is very much appreciated and goes directly towards our essential costs. We have raised nearly £1.000 so far and with a little more help should be able to programme another entertaining festival this year.

Books, books and more books.

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:52:02 GMT

There was much excitement this weekend among the West Port team as the sixth annual Edinburgh Book Fair, jointly organised by the Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association (PBFA) and Antiquarian Booksellers Association (ABA), came to the Assembly Rooms on George Street. The fair opened its doors at noon on Friday 12th and tactfully ejected those who couldn’t get enough at 5pm on Saturday 13th March.

One Book, One Twitter, lots of excitement

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:35:37 GMT

Jeff Howe at Crowdsourcing asked the internet: ‘What if everyone on Twitter read one book?’ People answered – and the answer was not ‘the internet will end.’ It was muchmore exciting than that.

Welcome to St Cuthbert's

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 17:37:15 GMT

Anyone familiar with Edinburgh can’t have failed to notice the impressive church and graveyard set back off the north end of Lothian Road, but how much do you “actually” know about The Parish Church of St Cuthbert’s?

Welcome to The Forest Cafe

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:09:43 GMT

The Forest’s first green shoots inched above our very own West Port soil more than a decade ago, transplanting in time to the Old Congressional Church on Bristo Place. It was threatened last year by a bad case of Bankrupted Charity Dieback, so we’re happy and relieved to welcome the cafe, social centre and arts space to its new home in Tollcross, and to this year’s list of venues.

Welcome to The Traverse

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 20:21:34 GMT

Just a hop, skip and teeny jump from the West Port sits a huddle of venues, Edinburgh’s arts quarter, made up of the Usher Hall, the Lyceum and the Traverse Theatre; an unrivalled density of culture outwith the collected majesty of the West Port’s bookshops.

Welcome to Owl & Lion

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Author/columnist Lucy Mangan is a bit of an odd connecting thread between two venues on the same street of Edinburgh, but there we are.

Welcome to Pulp Fiction

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 21:14:46 GMT

The West Port wears a number of identities: the literary, the creative and the lewd. Nowhere do the profane, the profound and the artistic combine more completely than in second-hand genre bookstore, Pulp Fiction.

Welcome to Armchair Books

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 17:56:39 GMT

Armchair Books is a long-standing West Port Book Festival venue,with a great cast of characters that traipse in and out between the books. This year, it’s home to the ever-popular event Wince! Our intrepid literary detective Chris walks us through the ACB experience.

Programme 2012 is GO!

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 18:00:49 GMT

Starring robots, penguins, Two Shades of Gaelic, chips, book covers, Young Adult Fiction, tall tales, seductive stories, brilliant authors and MORE…