BOOKMARK Book Festival
Perthshire's Book Festival
BOOKMARK 2024
Opening event
Our 2024 programme for BOOKMARKBook Festival was given a splendid lift-off on Sunday 10 March in St Catherine’s, Blairgowrie.
Lord Stormont, from Scone Palace, and the historian and writer Jamie Jauncey treated a capacity audience to an enthralling hour of facts, personal stories and revelations into the Stone of Destiny and its historic connections to Scone Palace.
All of us there will be the best informed of people who now go on to see the Stone in its new home at Perth Museum. From the first of the iconic stone’s ‘two thefts’ (Edward 1 in 1296 and Ian Hamilton and friends in 1950) to its return to Perthshire at the end of March, Lord Stormont told its history and mythology with great knowledge and enthusiasm. His unique family insights were captivating and insightful and Jamie Jauncey, who wrote the guide to Scone Palace, led the wide-ranging discussion with ease and obvious enjoyment.
We hope that this enthralling event will encourage people to visit Perth Museum, Scone Palace and – of course – all our future BOOKMARK events.
For all our other events please click here. (And just a sneak preview to October: Jamie Jauncey is one of our guest authors…)
Background:
BOOKMARK established in 2012, has developed a reputation for being a friendly, well organised Book Festival which offers a wide range of events to suit all interests.
Our Next Event:
Saturday 18 May
BOOKMARK AGM and Desert Island Books
Location: St Catharine's Community Centre, PH10 6EY
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