Baillie Gifford
Borders Book
Festival 2021
New dates and venue:
2-7 November at Abbotsford House
Having previously shifted our dates to September, we’re on the move again! Abbotsford House in the Scottish Borders, the home of Sir Walter Scott, will stage this year’s festival in its grounds as part of the 250th anniversary celebrations of the life and work of Scotland’s greatest writer. Our dates have also nudged further into the autumn to give us the best possible chance of welcoming our authors and visitors back safely.
We look forward to seeing you in November… Join our mailing list for all the latest news and updates.
Baillie Gifford
Borders Book Festival Online 2020
Thank you everyone for joining us across thirteen amazing weeks of our free-to-view online festival. There have been so many highlights, with more than forty authors bringing words to life on every subject from the future of the planet and the meaning of life, to high fashion and your choice of last supper.
Our events for adults are no longer available, but all of our Saltire Roofing & Building Family Series events can still be enjoyed by young and old alike over on our Families & Education area.
Love Non-fiction?
Trust magazine, the free award-winning magazine from Baillie Gifford, is full of insightful articles on the innovations that are transforming the way we live and work, along with exclusive interviews with some of world’s most distinguished authors in non-fiction.
Available to read online, or receive in print.
The prestigious Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, founded and sponsored by the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, is now in its 11th year. With £25,000 to the winner and £1,000 to all who are shortlisted. Due to the cancellation of the Borders Book Festival 2020, the winner Christine Dwyer Hickey for The Narrow Land was announced live on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row. Read more about this year’s winner on the Walter Scott Prize website by clicking the button below.
Donations
Help keep Borders Book Festival alive!
The cancellation of this year’s festival due to Covid-19 and the subsequent loss of ticket revenue and book sales is having a big impact on us. As a charity we rely heavily on the support and generosity of our regular Borders Book Festival goers.
If you feel you are able to donate to allow us to continue to deliver the festival in 2021 and beyond, we would be most grateful.
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