With just one week to go until the 2026 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 still plenty of time to pick them up from Portobello Library. Remember all events are FREE to attend, although donations are always welcome after an event.

Events currently fully booked

Friday

Writing Workshop

Taming the Beast

Comic Workshop

Saturday

Scottish Crime

Reassessing Devolution

Myths and Fables

Sunday

Lighthouse Lives

Three Brothers in a Boat

If you have tickets for an event and find you can’t come anymore, particularly if it’s for one of the fully booked events, please return them to the library so someone else can get the chance to come along.

If an event you wanted to go to is fully booked, it is always worth coming along on the day just before the event. We’ll let ticket holders in first of course but if there are spaces, you might get in.

Remember you can collect up to four tickets per event per person so if you have a friend who would find it difficult to get to the library to pick up a ticket, why not get one for them?