Archive
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March 2018
Authors
Stuart McBride, Lin Anderson, Karen Campbell, Bryan Glennie, Mark Douglas-Home, Vivian French, Keith Brumpton
Illustrator
Eilidh Muldoon
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March 2017
Authors
Vivian French, Ann Cleeves, Alex Gray, Caro Ramsay, Craig Roberston, James Oswald
Scots Language Translator
Matthew Fitt
Storyteller
Grace Banks
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March 2016
Authors
‘Badger’ Lyn McNicol and Laura Jackson, Aline Templeton, Maggie Craig, Alex Salmond
Whisky Historian
Keith Hewitt
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March 2015
Authors
Mairi Hedderwick, Alex Gray, Shona MacLean, Sara Sheridan, Maggie Craig
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March 2014
Authors
Linda Strachan, Louise Welsh, Lin Anderson, Rosie Wallace
Scots Language Translator
Matthew Fitt
Illustrator
Moira Munro
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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.
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We have been very fortunate to welcome a wonderful selection of visiting authors, translators, storytellers and illustrators: