The Boswell Book Festival is the world’s only festival dedicated to biography and memoir, staged at Dumfries House in Ayrshire. Our unique theme – ‘biography and memoir’ – famously inspired by James Boswell, (b. 1740), the inventor of modern biography, has over the six years of our existence, led us to uncover an amazing variety of life stories portrayed annually in our Festival programme. This distinguishes us from all other book festivals. Ayrshire’s magnificent Dumfries House, famously save... See more >