Scottish Books Events: June 2025
There's a sexy bookish lineup at Lighthouse Bookshop this month, as well as the relaunch of beloved literary magazine Extra Teeth at Mount Florida Books and The Portobello Bookshop, and lots more beside
It’s a bit of a sexy time at Lighthouse Bookshop this coming month: author and literary translator Arielle Burgdorf launches their queer experimental novel Jeanne (5 Jun), Anastasiia Fedorova launches Second Skin: Inside the Worlds of Fetish, Kink and Deviant Desire (17 Jun), and Melissa Febos is in conversation with Dina Nayeri about her new book exploring a year of celibacy The Dry Season (26 Jun). There's also some great poetry: two launches at Lighthouse (Ilisha Thiru Purcell's What She Said ft. Jj Fadaka, Zainab Imran and Mymona Bibi, 25 Jun and Michael Mullen's Goonie, 20 Jun); Loud Poets returning to Scottish Storytelling Centre (13 Jun); and a poetry open mic at Glasgow Zine Library on 11 June.
For more book launches, head to The Portobello Bookshop on 12 June, where Irene Solà will be launching I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness, and on 18 June, where Xani Byrne and Yara Rodrigues Fowler launch the anthology on the joys of cycling, Freewheeling; or to Waterstones Sauchiehall Street, where Glasgow author Gillian Shirreffs launches their novel Elephant. And over at Mount Florida Books, Jen Calleja launches Fair: The Life-Art of Translation (16 Jun) and beloved literary magazine Extra Teeth launch their new issue (13 Jun, find them also at The Portobello Bookshop on 4 June).