The organising team had a fantastic weekend and hope you enjoyed any events that you came to. Do let us know what you thought of the festival. Here are a selection of photos from the weekend. We don't seem to have any photos of the Democracy in Crisis event on Sunday so if you took any you'd be willing to let us use, please get in touch!

Photo by Vie Studio on Pexels.com The 2025 Portobello Book Festival was a great success and we hope you all enjoyed it as much as we did. Over the weekend, despite Storm Amy, Portobello Book Festival attracted hundreds of people to the library, and we have had some lovely feedback both from those taking part and those attending. Our intention is always to try as far as possible to make sure that those who make up the community of Portobello see themselves, their experiences and their interests reflected in the programme.

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Unfortunately the Graphic Novel Builder workshop due to take place on Friday afternoon has had to be cancelled. Apologies for any disappointment or inconvenience caused.

Portobello Book Festival: 3rd – 5th October 2025Tickets for all events are free and available from Portobello Library  The programme for this year’s festival was officially laun…

In just a few days, this year's festival will kick off with our first event The Busy-Bodies: A Portobello Tale at midday on Friday at Portobello Library. On Friday and Saturday, most events will be upstairs in the library, as the library will be open to the public during the day. The exceptions are Frankly on Friday evening which will be in the library downstairs, and the…

Portobello Book Festival: 3rd – 5th October 2025Tickets for all events are free and available from Portobello Library  The programme for this year’s festival was officially laun…

With just under two weeks to go until the 2025 Portobello Book Festival, here is an update about tickets. Tickets are going fast with some events already fully booked and some with only a handful left. However, there are PLENTY of tickets left and plenty of time to pick them up from Portobello Library. Remember all events are FREE to attend.

Books by all our participating authors (and chairs if applicable) will be available to buy from a pop-up bookshop at the library during the festival run by the lovely people from our local independent bookshop, The Portobello Bookshop. We hope that many of our authors will be signing their books after their events. If you want to buy books in advance, you will find the bookshop at 46 Portobello High Street.

If you have been having a look through the programme for this year’s Portobello Book Festival and noting down the events you would like to see, then NOW is the time to get yourself down to the library! Tickets are available from today, exclusively from the library in Rosefield Avenue. Tickets, which are all free, can only be collected from Portobello Library in person.

Portobello Book Festival: 3rd – 5th October 2025Tickets for all events are free and available from Portobello Library The programme for this year’s festival was officially launched at the library last night. Copies are now available to pick up from the library and you’ll find them in various places around Portobello too. Tickets will be available to collect in person from the library from 10am on Saturday morning, 13th September.

We are delighted to say that programmes and tickets will be available soon for our 2025 festival. The programme will be officially launched in early September and will be available to pick up in the library, The Portobello Bookshop and various other local business around Portobello from Friday 5th September. The full programme will also be available on our website from 5th September.

The Portobello Book Festival organising committee has already been busy planning this year’s festival and we will have a fantastic line-up for you! So save the dates – this year’s…