Scottish Books Events: April 2025
There's political book launches, poetry readings, and the return of Paisley Book Festival over in book world this month – here are our April highlights
Paisley Book Festival kicks off over in, well, Paisley this month, with a great lineup full of favourites from 25 to 27 April: find the likes of Heather Parry and Hannah Lavery in conversation, a panel on food and memoir featuring Julie Lin, Pam Brunton and Katie Goh, and the Paisley heat of the Loud Poets Slam Series. Elsewhere on the West Coast, Waterstones Argyle Street welcomes Amal El-Mohtar to discuss her books The River Has Roots and This Is How You Lose The Time War (25 Apr), and Good Press does a group launch for Colin Bramwell, Patrick Romero McCafferty and Charles Lang for their new poetry books (7 Apr).
Over in Edinburgh, meanwhile, Kit de Waal launches The Best of Everything at The Portobello Bookshop (16 Apr) and there’s a showcase of the Inklings featuring Arusa Qureshi, Casci Ritchie, Thom James Carter and Xuanlin Tham (22 Apr) and the launch of Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin’s Ordinary Saints (24 Apr) also at Porty. Over at Lighthouse Bookshop, Emma Casey launches the intriguingly named The Return of the Housewife (9 Apr), Rahul Rao launches The Psychic Life of Statues (3 Apr) and Candice Chung launches her memoir Chinese Parents Don’t Say I Love You (16 Apr). And finally, The Skinny writer Andrés N. Ordorica launches his second poetry collection Holy Boys at Toppings on 9 April.