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2025
Top authors will inspire Renfrewshire schoolchildren as part of Paisley Book Festival
Extensive schools programme will share the ‘magic of the written word’, OneRen chair says Hundreds of schoolchildren across Renfrewshire will delve
Paisley Book Festival 2025: The Lives We Live
Paisley Book Festival 2025 is all about The Lives We Live. Associate programmer Jess Orr shares the inspiration behind the theme - and her excitement about the great line-up of
Ely Percy champions Paisley’s festival for all
Award-winning Renfrewshire author will be returning to book festival as Duck Feet is added to SQA’s high school reading list Renfrew writer Ely Percy says people from all walks
Trainspotting author leads the line-up for 2025 Paisley Book Festival
Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh is to headline a stellar line-up for this year’s Paisley Book Festival. Belle and Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch, acclaimed short story writer Chris McQueer and celebrated Glasgow restaurant owner Julie Lin will also
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2023
2022
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon set to appear at Paisley Book Festival 2022 – now open!
As the Paisley Book Festival opens today, Thursday 17 February 2022, the Festival announces that First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, as guest host of ‘What Maks a Makar’.
Stories Mak Us with Jim Alexander
What do we take from stories? There are the memories of scenes and characters that endure inside us. They have nowhere else to go. We absorb and weave
Getting Creative at this year’s Paisley Book Festival with Tawnya Renelle
Building on its success in previous years, the workshop programme at this year’s Paisley Book Festival is bigger and better than ever, with opportunities to get creative in
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon set to appear at Paisley Book Festival
Today, Paisley Book Festival announces First Minister Nicola Sturgeon as guest host of ‘What Maks a Makar’. The event on Saturday 26th February presents an unique opportunity for
The Inspiration Behind Daddy’s Bad Bed Day
My son Noah was born in June 2020. He is now almost 20 months old and is bursting full of fun, curiosity and mischievousness. Every week I am
Children and families take centre stage in this blog by our specialist Programmer, Janis
Performance Programmer (Children and Families). That’s my job title and it rocks ma socks. The fact that OneRen understands the significant specialism involved
