Scottish Books Events: January 2025
Some book launches, poetry nights and a seance for Rabbie Burns over this month – here are our January literary highlights
Things slowly begin to gear up after the Christmas rush at bookshops. Over at The Portobello Bookshop, there are two great book launches: Holly Bourne talks about her new adult fiction book So Thrilled For You, all about female friendship and motherhood (21 Jan), while Nicola Dinan releases her sophomore novel Disappoint Me (28 Jan). Over at The Lighthouse Bookshop, there’s an event rescheduled from the Radical Book Fair following the freak snowstorm: Hannah Proctor, Evie Muir and Joy Atkinson will be discussing how to survive activism over at the Augustine United Church (23 Jan).
Just in times for Burns Night, meanwhile, there’s a music/poetry/comedy performance at the Scottish Storytelling Centre with She Burns (23 Jan), in which four witches attempt to summon the spirit of Scotland’s bard. And there’s more poetry and storytelling in Glasgow at the Glasgow Zine Library: head over for the Glasgow Storytellers Group on 6 January, and the poetry open mic night on 8 January.