The themed 'Unlikely Friendships' creative writing session produced wonderful collaborative stories, written by the students, for Scottish Book Week Scotland 2025
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Scottish Book Week was a huge success! We made audiobooks for Primary 2, shared reviews of our favourite books, and designed our own creative book covers. 📖🎧🎨 @missb-stp.bsky.social @mrsb-stp.bsky.social @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social #scottishbookweek
Lots of fun choosing a book for a loved one today - thank you for all the book donations. #scottishbookweek
Primary 2/1 - some of our learners have been making their own mini books this week. This book about K-pop Demon Hunters was amazing! #scottishbookweek
A very happy #ScottishBookWeek to all who celebrate.
I will be panelling at Brechin Bookfest on Saturday if anyone wants something signed or (more likely) to throw rocks at me.
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As part of Scottish Book Week we are reading the BfG! Listen for the bell and stop,drop and read together! #scottishbookweek
Another excellent event for #ScottishBookWeek at the Speirs Centre in Alloa, spent a fascinating hour learning about Agnes Finnie, the witch of Potterow and the perilous times she lived through.
There is a free event in Edinburgh this afternoon at the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust - an afternoon tea and activities to celebrate the book in #ScottishBookWeek. Wish I was in Edinburgh so I could go along
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Background of Bolivian salt flats. In front is the cover of the book The Salt Flats by Rachelle Atalla.
Martha and Finn are on the trip of a lifetime to the Bolivian Salt Flats. For Martha, it’s a desperate attempt to cure her crippling climate change anxiety, something that’s been added to by the flight pollution she’s caused on the journey so far. For Finn, it’s the final chance to see if his marriage to Martha can survive. Joined by two other couples, Martha and Finn journey to a remote area of the salt flats with Oscar, a self-proclaimed shaman, who plans to help them achieve spiritual enlightenment. However, as each salt ceremony progresses the group have to face different versions of reality with consequences that will leave them all with life changing ultimatums! This book is a masterclass in building tension. I felt consumed, firstly by Martha’s anxiety, and then by the story as a whole which doesn’t let up right until the final sentence. I love books that make you physically feel something and this one definitely does! I read it over a weekend and it’s one of the stories that I was thinking about all the time, I couldn’t wait to get back to it! Throughout the novel the characters have a number of strange experiences, partly due to the conditions of the environment they find themselves in, but also through the salt ceremonies which often result in hallucinations. These parts were so well written, creating a disorienting feeling for the reader that mirrored what the characters were going through without being confusing or taking you out of the story. This added to the tension as both the reader and the characters often didn’t know what was fact and what had been imagined! The salt flats themselves felt like a character in the book and the descriptions are so vivid that I felt like I was right there. It’s actually made me want to visit the area but I think I’ll give Oscar’s retreat a miss! The Salt Flats is one of the best books I’ve read this year so I’d highly recommend.
Time for another #ScottishBookWeek review! Today’s book is The Salt Flats by Rachelle Atalla and while Rachelle is Scottish the book is set in Bolivia. This is one of the best books I’ve read all year so I’d highly recommend it ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
It's #ScottishBookWeek ! Alloa Speirs Centre library have been putting on some fab events - like the live music session from the author of this wee gem, about the bands, venues and stories from pre 1950s to 1989 Stirling/Clacks
Recommending ‘fishnet’ by Kirstin Innes for Scottish Book Week. #scottishbookweek @kirstininnes.bsky.social
Stack of books on a wooden bookshelf. Books are: The Maiden, Our Fathers, Mayflies, The Darkest Night, Case Study, The Accident on the A35, Edge of the Grave, Burnt Offerings and A Song of ravens and Wolves
More Scottish books for #ScottishBookWeek 🏴 I’ve read most of these and they’re all excellent! 📚💙
#ScottishBookWeek has prompted me to reflect on Scottish literature and made me realize, with some embarrassment, how little experience I have with reading Scottish books. Nevertheless, I did love reading Rosemary Goring's 'Her Story: The Nation's History by the Women Who Lived It'!
⭐️Morning WONDERS!⭐️
A brand new week, what possibilities! Before I start my Scottish Book Trust #ScottishBookWeek Tour I thought I would share a glimpse of HAPPY HILLS 3, which I finished last week…with the brand new baddie hidden…what creature could they be?…More soon…
This week is #ScottishBookWeek - which feels like the perfect excuse to remind you that Wandless is set in Scotland and you should absolutely read it (please). Buy at www.wandless.co.uk
Girdy here and assuming people are as geeky as he is and therefore interested in #ScottishBookWeek YouTube Live Alan Moore talking to Heather Parry in a digital event/YouTube Live for Scottish Book Week on the 19th. bit.ly/3ufUQYD
