Join us for the 2025 Boswell Book Festival!
9-11 May 2025
Dumfries House, Cumnock, Ayrshire
Please add the dates to your diary
The programme will be released in March
Would you like to get further involved?
Over the years the support of Boswell Book Festival Friends, Patrons, Sponsors and Volunteers has allowed us to welcome thousands of visitors to our exceptional festival weekends and is vital to help us stage another year’s festival, so please consider signing up this year.
As a Friend or Patron you will also get ahead of the crowd in obtaining the tickets you want for any sell-out events.
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About the Boswell Book Festival
The world’s only festival of biography and memoir, normally set in the spectacular grounds of Dumfries House, draws an enthusiastic audience attracted by its unique theme.
Inspired by the great Ayrshire biographer James Boswell of Auchinleck, at the heart of the Festival is a programme of stories taken from the inspirational lives of people past and present - told through talks, drama, art and music.
Children's Festival
Why is it so important to children to tell our stories?
Stories connect the past and present to the future and learning these stories is what can awaken future generations to their potential.
Through the Festival, the Boswell Trust engages with primary and secondary schools across Ayrshire and beyond.