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.

We are thrilled to let you know that we are once again working with Balnagown Castle Estate to bring a walking tour of the Italian Gardens and Castle grounds in aid of Tain Museum. Tickets can only be purchased through the TicketSource platform. Balnagown Estate - Walking Tour at Balnagown Estate, Kildary, IV18 ONU event tickets from TicketSource

Double wow. We had a full house at the Budapest Cafe Orchestra concert on Friday 5th June 2026. Many thanks to Martin Ross for being our volunteer photographer. And to everyone who made this event happen.

Sales are going brilliantly for the Budapest Cafe Orchestra event on the 5th June 2026, so well in fact that we just released additional tickets on Ticketsource https://www.ticketsource.com/st-duthac-book-arts-festival