Established in 2022 in collaboration with The Queen’s Reading Room – a worldwide network of literary communities – Braemar Literary Festival will return in 2025 for its fourth year.
Turn the page on your next big adventure and visit us in our storybook setting from 26th September to 28th September for a weekend celebrating the power and quiet beauty of the written and spoken word and the creative use of text across all artforms.
The full festival programme will be launched in the coming weeks, but we are thrilled to offer you an early glimpse of what’s to come, including a first look at some of our incredible speakers.
We are delighted to be joined by prolific and best-loved author, Sir Alexander McCall Smith, acclaimed author and actor Stephen Fry and bestselling writer Monica Ali and the author/screenwriter of global sensation ‘One Day’, David Nicholls. Food writer and critic Tom Parker Bowles also returns alongside restaurant critic and columnist Giles Coren, as part of our fantastic literary line up.
Enjoy the very best of Highland hospitality in the
unique setting of the Fife Arms Hotel.
Over the Braemar Literary Festival, the Fife Arms offers:
• Two nights’ accommodation with breakfast
• Welcome cocktail reception followed by a special festival launch dinner curated by a guest chef and entertainment in the Fife Arms Clunie Dining Room
• Complimentary access to all festival talks and performances with reserved priority seating
• Festival guest bag on arrival with complimentary gift
Guarantee Your Front Row Seat
Our spectacular village location
The village of Braemar in the heart of the Scottish Cairngorms is a historic destination, steeped in centuries of both art and stories, and holds longstanding associations with key Scottish literary icons such as Robert Louis Stevenson, who wrote the first thirteen chapters of Treasure Island whilst holidaying in Braemar and Nan Shepherd, the celebrated author of The Living Mountain, who revolutionised 'mountain' literature through her poetry and writings on the Cairngorms.
The Fife Arms hotel celebrates many of these literary figures within its dedicated and uniquely decorated rooms, and through its annual cultural programme of which Braemar Literary Festival is part.
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