St Andrews Events and Reading Groups
We're delighted to bring our all-year-round Literary Festival to our bookshop in St Andrews. We have a packed calendar which ranges from readings in the bookshop to evenings with literary stars.
Book Salad
Wednesday 19th November, 7pm
Book Salad normally meets on the last Tuesday of every month, but this month we meet on Wednesday 19th. To make a salad you put together …
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Felicity Cloake
Thursday 20th November, 7.30pm
Felicity Cloake on Peach Street to Lobster Lane~ Coast to coast in search of real American cuisine ~'A glorious freewheel through the culinary quirks and delights …
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Skye McAlpine for The Christmas Companion
Monday 24th November, 7.30pm
Skye McAlpine on The Christmas CompanionJust in time for starting the Christmas preparations Skye McAlpine is joining us with a helping hand and new ideas with …
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Emeritus Professor David McCrone
Tuesday 25th November, 7.30pm
David McCrone on Changing Scotland'David McCrone is the pre-eminent sociologist of Scotland. For several decades, he has been investigating the transformation of Scotland from a fairly …
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Mairi Kidd on Poor Creatures
Wednesday 26th November, 7.30pm
Mairi Kidd on Poor CreaturesMairi Kidd's admirable literary career includes three books celebrating fierce historical women like Warriors and Witches and Damn Rebel Bitches, as well …
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Tim Siadatan
Thursday 27th November, 7.30pm
Tim Siadatan on Padella 'Recipes that are a joy to prepare and to polish off' Yotam Ottolenghi Join us for a night dedicated to the love …
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Topping & Company Working Group
Wednesday 3rd December, 7pm
Join us for the final meeting of the 'Topping & Co Working Group' which explores the rapidly changing character of work in the modern world.Over the …
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Sci-Fi/Fantasy by Women Book Group
Thursday 4th December, 7pm
Welcome to the 'Strange Worlds Society'!Meeting on the last Thursday of every month, the 'Strange Worlds Society' will celebrate science fiction and fantasy books by women.This …
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Festive St Andrews Bookshop
Thursday 11th December, 5pm
Mark your calendars, because the Topping & Company St Andrews Festive Evening is returning for another year.You are invited to join us in the bookshop for …
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Cafe Cuil's Clare Coghill
Thursday 22nd January, 7.30pm
Clare Coghill Cafe Cuil CookbookDramatic recipes from a dramatic locale - Clare Coghill joins us with recipes from her Isle of Skye cafe.Cuil: Scots Gaelic n. …
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Ali Smith on Glyph
Friday 30th January, 7.30pm
Ali Smith on GlyphShe's been called 'Scotland's Nobel-laureate in waiting.' We are so happy that Ali Smith is returning to the bookshop for Glyph, the follow-up …
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Gavin Francis for The Unfragile Mind
Wednesday 11th February, 7.30pm
Gavin Francis on The Unfragile MindThe last time Gavin Francis was here he delighted us with tales of connection for The Bridge Between Worlds. He returns …
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Keza MacDonald on Super Nintendo
Monday 23rd February, 7.30pm
Keza MacDonald on Super NintendoGet ready for some extreme 1990s nostalgia with Keza MacDonald, video games editor for The Guardian.From the instant classics to the hidden …
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Bake Off's Prue Leith Returns to St Andrews
Tuesday 3rd March, 7.30pm
**Please note this event is taking place on the 3rd of March 2026**Prue Leith on Being Old...and learning to love it!Forever young at heart, Prue Leith …
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