The Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival
The Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival is the host of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, and takes place in June every year at Harmony House Gardens, Melrose, in the Scottish Borders. The dates for the 2018 festival have now been announced here
The Walter Scott Prize is celebrated at two events at the Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival: a panel discussion event with shortlisted authors, and the main Walter Scott Prize ceremony, at which shortlisted authors are honoured and each of the shortlisted novels brought alive with readings, before the thrilling announcement of the winner concludes the event. Tickets for the 2018 Prize events will be available in the Spring of 2018.
The Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival is one of the UK’s most prestigious book festivals, with four days of talks, readings and performances by a host of world-class speakers and entertainers. The festival features a Family Book Festival, a bookshop and café, street market and artisan food vendors, as well as an all-day-long programme of events all set in beautiful Georgian gardens and adjoining meadows, in the shadow of Melrose Abbey.
2017 Image Gallery
Here is a selection of images from the Prize events at the 2017 festival.
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- Sebastian Barry, Jo Baker and Charlotte Hobson at panel event
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- WSP Panel event at Borders Book Festival
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- Sebastian Barry accepts his prize from the Duke of Buccleuch
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- Sebastian Barry, winner of the 2017 Walter Scott Prize, with trophy
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- YWSP winners on stage with Charlotte Hobson, Francis Spufford, Sebastian Barry, Jo Baker, and the Duke of Buccleuch
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- Meeting Jo Baker
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- With voice coach Bridget McCann
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- Demelza and Alice with their families, Alan Caig Wilson and Elizabeth Laird from the Young Walter Scott Prize, outside Harmony House at the Borders Book Festival
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- Tour of Abbotsford
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- At Abbotsford
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- At Abbotsford
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- Alice, Demelza and their families survey the Eildon Hills from ‘Scott’s View’
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- Demelza and Alice at Scott’s View
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- Alice and her sister with Kathryn Ross of the Young Walter Scott Prize
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- At Borders Book Festival