These beautiful bookmarks will be available in the St Duthac Book and Arts Festival Pop-Up Bookshop (Masonic Lodge, Tain) during the festival run from 8th - 13th September 2026. A perfect gift for the bookworms in your world.

This year we have a number of events in our programme that patrons should book direct with the facilitators. Starting with our launch event to Celebrate Fèis Rois’s 40th Birthday with an evening of excellent music. Book direct here. Monday 7th September 7.30 pm-9.30 pm The Duthac Centre, Stafford Street, Tain IV19 1BQ

We love seeing the support from local organisations for our friendly wee festival. Gro For You have set up a bookshelf at their fabulous community innovation campus on Morangie Road, Tain, IV19 1PY. Why not pop in for something to eat in their cafe and while there pick up your next read for a donation.

Our 2026 programme is now available at venues across the Easter Ross Peninsula and will be coming to venues further afield. We invited volunteers to our launch event on the 22 July 2026 to see the brochures hot of the press and to enlist their help to distribute them to venues across the Highlands. We were blown away by the turnout of 38 people. Grab your copy, sit back and choose your events and be ready for tickets which go on sale on from 7 a.m. on the 28th July 2026. You

This year’s Festival (our 6th) is a wonderful mixture of the written word and creativity. BBC Radio 4’s Bookclub’s James Naughtie is returning after his sell-out appearance in 2022, while Newsnight former presenter Kirsty Wark dons her fiction hat to chat about her novels. The highly anticipated Asad Qureshi has cashed in on his raincheck from 2025 and joins us this year with his book 165 Days Prisoner of the Taliban. We get theatrical with Theatre Director John Doyle, born i

The Group is eagerly awaiting the arrival of this year's festival brochures. As in previous years we will be asking our volunteers' help to distribute the brochures in the local area and further afield. We will be holding a volunteers' evening in the Lesser Hall in the Duthac Centre on Wednesday 22nd July at 7pm to give a sneak preview of this years festival. There will also be the opportunity to volunteer your time during the Festival (8th-13th September) to help in the Pop

The sun shone on our fundraising walk and talk on Balnagown Estate lead by Tain & District Museum and Clan Ross Centre manager Jason Ubych. Tickets sold out within a few days and raised £410 for Tain & District Museum. It was perfect weather for the occasion and as predicted the castle and gardens looked amazing in the sunshine. We all celebrated with a photo on the King James Bridge. Thank you to our wonderful volunteers, Jason, and Balnagown Estate for their help in arrang

The St Duthac Book and Arts Festival team and volunteers popped up at the annual Tain Classic Car event on fathers day 2026.