Literary Events

Bookbug Sessions are for parents and babies aged 0-5 years.

Free, friendly, fun sessions of songs, rhymes and stories for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and their families and carers to enjoy together.

Each session lasts around 30 minutes its a great opportunity to spend some quality time with your little one, and meet other families.

Please phone Biggar Library on 01899 222060 or email biggar@library.s-lanark.org.uk for any queries regarding these sessions. No booking required.

Sessions: Monday 10:00am –10:30am, Friday 2.15pm – 2.45pm, Saturday 10.00am-10.30am.

Unfortunately our Bookbug session will not run on Friday the 4th of September 2026

Bookbug Sessions are for parents and babies aged 0-5 years. 

Free, friendly, fun sessions of songs, rhymes and stories for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and their families and carers to enjoy together. 

Each session lasts around 30 minutes its a great opportunity to spend some quality time with your little one, and meet other families. 

Please phone Biggar Library on 01899 222060 or email biggar@library.s-lanark.org.uk for any queries regarding these sessions. No booking required. 

Bookbug Sessions are for parents and babies aged 0-5 years.

Free, friendly, fun sessions of songs, rhymes and stories for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and their families and carers to enjoy together.

Each session lasts around 30 minutes its a great opportunity to spend some quality time with your little one, and meet other families.

Please phone Biggar Library on 01899 222060 or email biggar@library.s-lanark.org.uk for any queries regarding these sessions. No booking required.

Sessions: Monday 10:00am –10:30am, Friday 2.15pm – 2.45pm, Saturday 10.00am-10.30am.

Bookbug Sessions are for parents and babies aged 0-5 years.

Free, friendly, fun sessions of songs, rhymes and stories for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and their families and carers to enjoy together. Each session lasts around 30 minutes its a great opportunity to spend some quality time with your little one, and meet other families. 
Please phone Biggar Library on 01899 222060 or email biggar@library.s-lanark.org.uk for any queries regarding these sessions.

No booking required

Bookbug Sessions are for parents and babies aged 0-5 years. 

Free, friendly, fun sessions of songs, rhymes and stories for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and their families and carers to enjoy together. 

Each session lasts around 30 minutes its a great opportunity to spend some quality time with your little one, and meet other families. 

Please phone Biggar Library on 01899 222060 or email biggar@library.s-lanark.org.uk for any queries regarding these sessions. No booking required. 

Bookbug Sessions are for parents and babies aged 0-5 years.

Free, friendly, fun sessions of songs, rhymes and stories for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and their families and carers to enjoy together.

Each session lasts around 30 minutes its a great opportunity to spend some quality time with your little one, and meet other families.

Please phone Biggar Library on 01899 222060 or email biggar@library.s-lanark.org.uk for any queries regarding these sessions. No booking required.

Sessions: Monday 10:00am –10:30am, Friday 2.15pm – 2.45pm, Saturday 10.00am-10.30am.

Bookbug Sessions are for parents and babies aged 0-5 years.

Free, friendly, fun sessions of songs, rhymes and stories for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and their families and carers to enjoy together. Each session lasts around 30 minutes its a great opportunity to spend some quality time with your little one, and meet other families. 
Please phone Biggar Library on 01899 222060 or email biggar@library.s-lanark.org.uk for any queries regarding these sessions.

No booking required

Bookbug Sessions are for parents and babies aged 0-5 years. 

Free, friendly, fun sessions of songs, rhymes and stories for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and their families and carers to enjoy together. 

Each session lasts around 30 minutes its a great opportunity to spend some quality time with your little one, and meet other families. 

Please phone Biggar Library on 01899 222060 or email biggar@library.s-lanark.org.uk for any queries regarding these sessions. No booking required. 

Bookbug Sessions are for parents and babies aged 0-5 years.

Free, friendly, fun sessions of songs, rhymes and stories for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and their families and carers to enjoy together.

Each session lasts around 30 minutes its a great opportunity to spend some quality time with your little one, and meet other families.

Please phone Biggar Library on 01899 222060 or email biggar@library.s-lanark.org.uk for any queries regarding these sessions. No booking required.

Sessions: Monday 10:00am –10:30am, Friday 2.15pm – 2.45pm, Saturday 10.00am-10.30am.

Bookbug Sessions are for parents and babies aged 0-5 years.

Free, friendly, fun sessions of songs, rhymes and stories for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and their families and carers to enjoy together. Each session lasts around 30 minutes its a great opportunity to spend some quality time with your little one, and meet other families. 
Please phone Biggar Library on 01899 222060 or email biggar@library.s-lanark.org.uk for any queries regarding these sessions.

No booking required

Bookbug Sessions are for parents and babies aged 0-5 years. 

Free, friendly, fun sessions of songs, rhymes and stories for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and their families and carers to enjoy together. 

Each session lasts around 30 minutes its a great opportunity to spend some quality time with your little one, and meet other families. 

Please phone Biggar Library on 01899 222060 or email biggar@library.s-lanark.org.uk for any queries regarding these sessions. No booking required. 

Bookbug Sessions are for parents and babies aged 0-5 years.

Free, friendly, fun sessions of songs, rhymes and stories for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and their families and carers to enjoy together.

Each session lasts around 30 minutes its a great opportunity to spend some quality time with your little one, and meet other families.

Please phone Biggar Library on 01899 222060 or email biggar@library.s-lanark.org.uk for any queries regarding these sessions. No booking required.

Sessions: Monday 10:00am –10:30am, Friday 2.15pm – 2.45pm, Saturday 10.00am-10.30am.

Bookbug Sessions are for parents and babies aged 0-5 years.

Free, friendly, fun sessions of songs, rhymes and stories for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and their families and carers to enjoy together. Each session lasts around 30 minutes its a great opportunity to spend some quality time with your little one, and meet other families. 
Please phone Biggar Library on 01899 222060 or email biggar@library.s-lanark.org.uk for any queries regarding these sessions.

No booking required

If you want to start tracing your ancestors or are unsure how to continue your search, this course is just for you! You will learn how to use the different online resources available for genealogy and local history research and you will be able to practice soon after the course! 

You can bring your own device or use the library PCs (5 available). 

This will be delivered as a group session and booking is essential. 

 £4.35 / £2.25 (Concessions)/ free with ActivAge 

 Contact Biggar Library on 01899 222060 or email biggar@library.s-lanark.org.uk

Bookbug Sessions are for parents and babies aged 0-5 years. 

Free, friendly, fun sessions of songs, rhymes and stories for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and their families and carers to enjoy together. 

Each session lasts around 30 minutes its a great opportunity to spend some quality time with your little one, and meet other families. 

Please phone Biggar Library on 01899 222060 or email biggar@library.s-lanark.org.uk for any queries regarding these sessions. No booking required. 

Bookbug Sessions are for parents and babies aged 0-5 years.

Free, friendly, fun sessions of songs, rhymes and stories for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and their families and carers to enjoy together.

Each session lasts around 30 minutes its a great opportunity to spend some quality time with your little one, and meet other families.

Please phone Biggar Library on 01899 222060 or email biggar@library.s-lanark.org.uk for any queries regarding these sessions. No booking required.

Sessions: Monday 10:00am –10:30am, Friday 2.15pm – 2.45pm, Saturday 10.00am-10.30am.

Bookbug Sessions are for parents and babies aged 0-5 years.

Free, friendly, fun sessions of songs, rhymes and stories for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and their families and carers to enjoy together. Each session lasts around 30 minutes its a great opportunity to spend some quality time with your little one, and meet other families. 
Please phone Biggar Library on 01899 222060 or email biggar@library.s-lanark.org.uk for any queries regarding these sessions.

No booking required

Bookbug Sessions are for parents and babies aged 0-5 years. 

Free, friendly, fun sessions of songs, rhymes and stories for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and their families and carers to enjoy together. 

Each session lasts around 30 minutes its a great opportunity to spend some quality time with your little one, and meet other families. 

Please phone Biggar Library on 01899 222060 or email biggar@library.s-lanark.org.uk for any queries regarding these sessions. No booking required. 

Bookbug Sessions are for parents and babies aged 0-5 years.

Free, friendly, fun sessions of songs, rhymes and stories for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and their families and carers to enjoy together.

Each session lasts around 30 minutes its a great opportunity to spend some quality time with your little one, and meet other families.

Please phone Biggar Library on 01899 222060 or email biggar@library.s-lanark.org.uk for any queries regarding these sessions. No booking required.

Sessions: Monday 10:00am –10:30am, Friday 2.15pm – 2.45pm, Saturday 10.00am-10.30am.

Bookbug Sessions are for parents and babies aged 0-5 years.

Free, friendly, fun sessions of songs, rhymes and stories for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and their families and carers to enjoy together. Each session lasts around 30 minutes its a great opportunity to spend some quality time with your little one, and meet other families. 
Please phone Biggar Library on 01899 222060 or email biggar@library.s-lanark.org.uk for any queries regarding these sessions.

No booking required

Bookbug Sessions are for parents and babies aged 0-5 years. 

Free, friendly, fun sessions of songs, rhymes and stories for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and their families and carers to enjoy together. 

Each session lasts around 30 minutes its a great opportunity to spend some quality time with your little one, and meet other families. 

Please phone Biggar Library on 01899 222060 or email biggar@library.s-lanark.org.uk for any queries regarding these sessions. No booking required. 

To celebrate the centenary of the publication of Hugh MacDiarmid’s A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, Alan Riach, James Robertson and Gerda Stevenson read from MacDiarmid’s epic work and present Ayont the Thistle, a new anthology of essays and poems responding to it.

Music provided by the children of Black Mount Primary School.

Plus, Michael MacKenzie reads his personal selection of MacDiarmid’s work.

Join our magical Storytelling Trail!

Come dressed as your favourite farmyard animal:

Cows, Goats, Chickens, Dogs, Geese, Pigs, Horses, Llamas – the sillier the better! Special Guest Appearance: THE GIRAFFE!

Enjoy singing, dancing, and lots of giggles as the adventure unfolds in the Burnbraes!

All children must be accompanied by an adult.

Bookbug Sessions are for parents and babies aged 0-5 years.

Free, friendly, fun sessions of songs, rhymes and stories for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and their families and carers to enjoy together.

Each session lasts around 30 minutes its a great opportunity to spend some quality time with your little one, and meet other families.

Please phone Biggar Library on 01899 222060 or email biggar@library.s-lanark.org.uk for any queries regarding these sessions. No booking required.

Sessions: Monday 10:00am –10:30am, Friday 2.15pm – 2.45pm, Saturday 10.00am-10.30am.

Guests include:

Robin Galbraith, Chairman of Calzeat, one of Britain’s most renowned textile manufacturers – learn how a boy from Biggar ended up making curtains for the White House!

Writer Hannah Murphy, who recently completed a research project with Biggar Museum exploring historic witchcraft accusations in Upper Clydesdale.

Jim Ness, author of ‘Historical Guide to Biggar Beyond the High Street’.

The evening will also feature extracts from Brian Lambie’s unexpurgated diaries and accordion music from Charlie Todd from Friends of Biggar Museum. Bring your own Biggar stories for a celebration of Biggar.

A double bill: “The Boat in the Writing Room” (flytingfilms & Brae Editions) with “Finlay – Jandl – Satie”, a live performance in words & music by Florian Kaplick.

Finlay biographer Alistair Peebles and director Michael Lloyd (flytingfilms) explore a crucial precursor to Stony- path, Little Sparta, in a 2025 film that casts new light on Ian Hamilton Finlay’s largely forgotten first garden and early work at Gledfield, Easter Ross, 1965/66.

Bookbug Sessions are for parents and babies aged 0-5 years.

Free, friendly, fun sessions of songs, rhymes and stories for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and their families and carers to enjoy together. Each session lasts around 30 minutes its a great opportunity to spend some quality time with your little one, and meet other families. 
Please phone Biggar Library on 01899 222060 or email biggar@library.s-lanark.org.uk for any queries regarding these sessions.

No booking required

Pentlands Writers Group meets fortnightly in an informal, supportive setting where creative writing can be explored and enjoyed.

In this special performance, members will share a selection of poetry and prose to engage and delight a wider audience of fellow lovers of words and stories.

We look forward to welcoming you to Biggar Museum, a place rich in history and storytelling.

Refreshments will be provided to complement the evening.

Bookbug Sessions are for parents and babies aged 0-5 years. 

Free, friendly, fun sessions of songs, rhymes and stories for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and their families and carers to enjoy together. 

Each session lasts around 30 minutes its a great opportunity to spend some quality time with your little one, and meet other families. 

Please phone Biggar Library on 01899 222060 or email biggar@library.s-lanark.org.uk for any queries regarding these sessions. No booking required. 

Please join Biggar-based independent Red Squirrel Press for poetry, fiction, champagne and canapés to celebrate our 20th anniversary.

Gerry Cambridge was a MacDiarmid’s Brownsbank Fellowship Writer 1997/99 and is the founder-editor of The Dark Horse.

Jim Carruth is a poet, editor, and awards/events programmer, and Poet Laureate of Glasgow.

Poet David J Costello has been published extensively.

Kirsten MacQuarrie is an author and a chartered librarian.

Bookbug Sessions are for parents and babies aged 0-5 years.

Free, friendly, fun sessions of songs, rhymes and stories for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and their families and carers to enjoy together.

Each session lasts around 30 minutes its a great opportunity to spend some quality time with your little one, and meet other families.

Please phone Biggar Library on 01899 222060 or email biggar@library.s-lanark.org.uk for any queries regarding these sessions. No booking required.

Sessions: Monday 10:00am –10:30am, Friday 2.15pm – 2.45pm, Saturday 10.00am-10.30am.

Bookbug Sessions are for parents and babies aged 0-5 years.

Free, friendly, fun sessions of songs, rhymes and stories for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and their families and carers to enjoy together. Each session lasts around 30 minutes its a great opportunity to spend some quality time with your little one, and meet other families. 
Please phone Biggar Library on 01899 222060 or email biggar@library.s-lanark.org.uk for any queries regarding these sessions.

No booking required

Bookbug Sessions are for parents and babies aged 0-5 years. 

Free, friendly, fun sessions of songs, rhymes and stories for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and their families and carers to enjoy together. 

Each session lasts around 30 minutes its a great opportunity to spend some quality time with your little one, and meet other families. 

Please phone Biggar Library on 01899 222060 or email biggar@library.s-lanark.org.uk for any queries regarding these sessions. No booking required. 

Bookbug Sessions are for parents and babies aged 0-5 years.

Free, friendly, fun sessions of songs, rhymes and stories for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and their families and carers to enjoy together.

Each session lasts around 30 minutes its a great opportunity to spend some quality time with your little one, and meet other families.

Please phone Biggar Library on 01899 222060 or email biggar@library.s-lanark.org.uk for any queries regarding these sessions. No booking required.

Sessions: Monday 10:00am –10:30am, Friday 2.15pm – 2.45pm, Saturday 10.00am-10.30am.

Bookbug Sessions are for parents and babies aged 0-5 years.

Free, friendly, fun sessions of songs, rhymes and stories for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and their families and carers to enjoy together. Each session lasts around 30 minutes its a great opportunity to spend some quality time with your little one, and meet other families. 
Please phone Biggar Library on 01899 222060 or email biggar@library.s-lanark.org.uk for any queries regarding these sessions.

No booking required

Bookbug Sessions are for parents and babies aged 0-5 years. 

Free, friendly, fun sessions of songs, rhymes and stories for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and their families and carers to enjoy together. 

Each session lasts around 30 minutes its a great opportunity to spend some quality time with your little one, and meet other families. 

Please phone Biggar Library on 01899 222060 or email biggar@library.s-lanark.org.uk for any queries regarding these sessions. No booking required. 

Bookbug Sessions are for parents and babies aged 0-5 years.

Free, friendly, fun sessions of songs, rhymes and stories for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and their families and carers to enjoy together.

Each session lasts around 30 minutes its a great opportunity to spend some quality time with your little one, and meet other families.

Please phone Biggar Library on 01899 222060 or email biggar@library.s-lanark.org.uk for any queries regarding these sessions. No booking required.

Sessions: Monday 10:00am –10:30am, Friday 2.15pm – 2.45pm, Saturday 10.00am-10.30am.

Bookbug Sessions are for parents and babies aged 0-5 years.

Free, friendly, fun sessions of songs, rhymes and stories for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and their families and carers to enjoy together. Each session lasts around 30 minutes its a great opportunity to spend some quality time with your little one, and meet other families. 
Please phone Biggar Library on 01899 222060 or email biggar@library.s-lanark.org.uk for any queries regarding these sessions.

No booking required

Bookbug Sessions are for parents and babies aged 0-5 years. 

Free, friendly, fun sessions of songs, rhymes and stories for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and their families and carers to enjoy together. 

Each session lasts around 30 minutes its a great opportunity to spend some quality time with your little one, and meet other families. 

Please phone Biggar Library on 01899 222060 or email biggar@library.s-lanark.org.uk for any queries regarding these sessions. No booking required. 

Bookbug Sessions are for parents and babies aged 0-5 years.

Free, friendly, fun sessions of songs, rhymes and stories for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and their families and carers to enjoy together.

Each session lasts around 30 minutes its a great opportunity to spend some quality time with your little one, and meet other families.

Please phone Biggar Library on 01899 222060 or email biggar@library.s-lanark.org.uk for any queries regarding these sessions. No booking required.

Sessions: Monday 10:00am –10:30am, Friday 2.15pm – 2.45pm, Saturday 10.00am-10.30am.

Bookbug Sessions are for parents and babies aged 0-5 years.

Free, friendly, fun sessions of songs, rhymes and stories for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and their families and carers to enjoy together. Each session lasts around 30 minutes its a great opportunity to spend some quality time with your little one, and meet other families. 
Please phone Biggar Library on 01899 222060 or email biggar@library.s-lanark.org.uk for any queries regarding these sessions.

No booking required

Bookbug Sessions are for parents and babies aged 0-5 years. 

Free, friendly, fun sessions of songs, rhymes and stories for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and their families and carers to enjoy together. 

Each session lasts around 30 minutes its a great opportunity to spend some quality time with your little one, and meet other families. 

Please phone Biggar Library on 01899 222060 or email biggar@library.s-lanark.org.uk for any queries regarding these sessions. No booking required. 

Bookbug Sessions are for parents and babies aged 0-5 years.

Free, friendly, fun sessions of songs, rhymes and stories for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and their families and carers to enjoy together.

Each session lasts around 30 minutes its a great opportunity to spend some quality time with your little one, and meet other families.

Please phone Biggar Library on 01899 222060 or email biggar@library.s-lanark.org.uk for any queries regarding these sessions. No booking required.

Sessions: Monday 10:00am –10:30am, Friday 2.15pm – 2.45pm, Saturday 10.00am-10.30am.

Bookbug Sessions are for parents and babies aged 0-5 years.

Free, friendly, fun sessions of songs, rhymes and stories for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and their families and carers to enjoy together. Each session lasts around 30 minutes its a great opportunity to spend some quality time with your little one, and meet other families. 
Please phone Biggar Library on 01899 222060 or email biggar@library.s-lanark.org.uk for any queries regarding these sessions.

No booking required

Bookbug Sessions are for parents and babies aged 0-5 years. 

Free, friendly, fun sessions of songs, rhymes and stories for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and their families and carers to enjoy together. 

Each session lasts around 30 minutes its a great opportunity to spend some quality time with your little one, and meet other families. 

Please phone Biggar Library on 01899 222060 or email biggar@library.s-lanark.org.uk for any queries regarding these sessions. No booking required. 

Bookbug Sessions are for parents and babies aged 0-5 years.

Free, friendly, fun sessions of songs, rhymes and stories for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and their families and carers to enjoy together.

Each session lasts around 30 minutes its a great opportunity to spend some quality time with your little one, and meet other families.

Please phone Biggar Library on 01899 222060 or email biggar@library.s-lanark.org.uk for any queries regarding these sessions. No booking required.

Sessions: Monday 10:00am –10:30am, Friday 2.15pm – 2.45pm, Saturday 10.00am-10.30am.

Bookbug Sessions are for parents and babies aged 0-5 years.

Free, friendly, fun sessions of songs, rhymes and stories for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and their families and carers to enjoy together. Each session lasts around 30 minutes its a great opportunity to spend some quality time with your little one, and meet other families. 
Please phone Biggar Library on 01899 222060 or email biggar@library.s-lanark.org.uk for any queries regarding these sessions.

No booking required