Archive
March 2018
Authors
Stuart McBride, Lin Anderson, Karen Campbell, Bryan Glennie, Mark Douglas-Home, Vivian French, Keith Brumpton
Illustrator
Eilidh Muldoon
March 2017
Authors
Vivian French, Ann Cleeves, Alex Gray, Caro Ramsay, Craig Roberston, James Oswald
Scots Language Translator
Matthew Fitt
Storyteller
Grace Banks
March 2016
Authors
‘Badger’ Lyn McNicol and Laura Jackson, Aline Templeton, Maggie Craig, Alex Salmond
Whisky Historian
Keith Hewitt
March 2015
Authors
Mairi Hedderwick, Alex Gray, Shona MacLean, Sara Sheridan, Maggie Craig
March 2014
Authors
Linda Strachan, Louise Welsh, Lin Anderson, Rosie Wallace
Scots Language Translator
Matthew Fitt
Illustrator
Moira Munro
Run by a small team of volunteers, the Portsoy Book Festival began in March 2014 and has grown year on year. The Festival weekend is now accompanied by a week long programme of events held in the local primary schools encouraging children to read and create stories of their own.
We have been very fortunate to welcome a wonderful selection of visiting authors, translators, storytellers and illustrators: