Where to find a FREE Northwords Now
In ‘normal’ times, Northwords Now is available at hundreds of venues, cafes, book shops, galleries and other cool places across Scotland. If you have scope to take a bundle, let us know and we’ll see what can be arranged.
Inverness
- Culloden Battlefield
- Drumossie Hotel
- Eden Court Theatre Bishop’s Road
- Floral Hall
- HIE An Lochran, Inverness Campus
- Highland Archives
- Highland Institute for Contemporary Art (HICA) by Dores
- Highland Printmakers Bank St, Inverness
- Highland Wholefoods Inverness
- Hootananny 31 Church St
- Inverness Airport
- Inverness College 3 Longman Road
- Inverness College Midmills Campus, Crown Avenue
- Inverness Library
- Inverness Museum & Art Gallery Castle Wynd
- Leakeys Bookshop Greyfriars Hall, Church St
- MacGregors Bar Academy St
- Maggie's Highland Raigmore
- Nourish Cafe Church St
- Sandstone Press Suite 1, Stoneyfield Business Park
- Simpsons Garden Centre Inverness
- UHI Inverness College
- UHI HQ
- Visit Scotland
- Wasps Studio Midmills
- Waterstone’s 69 Eastgate Centre
Highland Area
- Abriachan Forest Trust
- Achins Bookshop Inverkirkaig, Lochinver
- All Highland libraries
- Alness Heritage Centre
- An Talla Solas Gallery Ullapool
- Anderson Restaurant Fortrose
- Ardross Hall
- Caithness Horizons Thurso
- Carnegie Courthouse Castle St, Dornoch
- Cocoa Mountain Balnakeil
- Contin Village Stores
- Cornerstone Cafe Evanton
- Cornerstone Gairloch
- Coul House Contin
- Cromarty Arts
- Dingwall Library
- Dornoch Academy
- Dornoch Bookshop High St, Dornoch
- Dunbeath Heritage Museum KW6 6ED
- GALE Gairloch
- Garden Café Dingwall
- Highflight Dingwall
- Highland Clayworks & Cafe Bunloit, Drumnadrochit
- Highland Farm Cafe Mountgerald by Dingwall
- History Links The Meadows, Dornoch
- Inverewe Gardens
- Kilmorack Gallery Beauly
- Lael Crafts Inverlael
- Loch Croispol Bookshop & Restaurant 2 Balnakeil, Durness
- Loch Torridon Community Centre
- Lochaber Farm Shop Unit 5, Lochaber Rural Complex, Torlundy
- Lochaber High School
- Lyth Arts Centre Wick KW1 4UD
- Moniack Mhor 4 Teaverran, Kiltarlity
- National Hotel Dingwall
- North Highland College Ormlie Rd, Thurso
- Old Brewery Cromarty
- Ord Distillery Muir of Ord
- Picaresque Books 55 High St, Dingwall
- Pump Room Strathpeffer
- Ralia Café by Newtonmore
- Small Planet Trading Strathpeffer
- Spa Pavilion Strathpeffer
- Storehouse Foulis
- Strathpeffer Community Centre
- Sutor Creek Cromarty
- Tain Service Point 4 High St, Tain
- The Bookmark Grantown on Spey 34 High St
- The Cafe Old Station, Strathpeffer
- The Ceilidh Place 14 West Argyll St Ullapool W Ross
- The Community Centre Tulloch St, Dingwall
- The Deli on The Square Beauly
- The Emporium Bookshop 11 High St, Cromarty
- The Highland Bookshop 60 High St, Ft William
- The Hub Muir of Ord
- The Pier Lochside, Lairg
- Timespan Helmsdale
- Ullapool Academy/Macphail Arts Centre
- Ullapool Bookshop Quay St., Ullapool
- Village Green Lochinver
- Visit Scotland Argyle St, Ullapool
- Visit Scotland High St, Aviemore
Islands, West & North
- Acair Ltd Stornoway
- An Buth Bheag Ferry Road, Kyle
- An Crubh Camuscross, Isle of Skye
- An Lanntair Kenneth St, Stornoway,
- An Tobar Tobermory, Mull
- Aros Viewfield Rd, Portree, Isle of Skye
- Blue Shed Cafe Torrin, Isle of Skye
- Café Arriba Portree, Isle of Skye
- Calmac ferries
- Carmina Gadelica Viewfield Road, Portree, Isle of Skye
- Ceol na Mara Dunvegan, isle of Skye
- Colonsay Book Shop
- Hebridean Jewellery & Bookshop 63 Cromwell St, Stornoway
- Isle of Eigg - various places
- Mor Books and Windrush Café Studio Struan, Isle of Skye
- Orkney Library & Archives 44 Junction Rd, Kirkwall
- Pier Arts Centre Stromness, Orkney
- Ravenspoint Kershader, Lochs, Isle of Lewis
- Robertsons Coffee House Church St, St Margaret's Hope
- Sabhal Mòr Ostaig Slèite, Isle of Skye
- Shetland Arts Dev Mareel, Lerwick
- Shetland Libraries
- Sligachan Hotel and Seumas' Bar
- Staffin Stores Stenscholl, Isle of Skye
- Taigh Chearsabagh Lochmaddy, North Uist
- The Islands Book Trust Kershader, Isle of Lewis
- The Shetland Times Bookshop 71-79 Commercial St, Lerwick
- Visit Scotland 20 Cromwell St, Stornoway
- Visit Scotland Kirkwall
- Visit Scotland Portree
- West Highland College Portree
- Western Isles Libraries 19 Cromwell St, Stornoway
Aberdeenshire
- Aberdeen City Libraries
- Aberdeenshire Libraries
- Alford Community Complex
- Angus Libraries West High Street
- Banff Castle & Community Arts
- Baxters Fochabers
- Better Read Books Ellon
- Blackwell’s Old Aberdeen, Aberdeen
- Books & Beans 12 Belmont St, Aberdeen
- Costa Coffee Elgin
- Elgin Library
- Findhorn Foundation Phoenix and Café, Universal Hall
- Hammerton Store 333 Gt Western Rd, Aberdeen
- Horizon Forres Business Park
- Kelpie Studio 8 Harbour St, Port Eroll, Cruden Bay
- Kings Bookshop 91 Main Street, Callander
- Lemon Tree 5 West North St, Aberdeen
- Logie Steading Bookshop Dunphail, Forres
- Meffan Institute 20 W High St, Forfar
- Mercat Bookshop 45 Castle St, Aberdeen
- Milton Art Gallery Milton of Crathes, Banchory
- Mither Tongue Shop Keith
- Montrose Library 214 High St
- Moray Arts Centre Findhorn
- Nairn Community & Arts Centre
- Nairn Library
- Newton Dee Café Newton Dee Village, Bieldside, Aberdeen
- Orbs Bookshop 33a Deveron St, Huntly
- Spindrift Studio 8b Quayside, The Marina, Banff
- Symposium Coffe Shop Ellon
- The Bakehouse Findhorn Village
- The Bookshop Murtle Estate, Bieldside, Aberdeen
- The Loft Bistro and Venue E. Grange Farm, Kinloss
- The Nairn Bookshop 97 High St, Nairn
- Tomintoul Visitor Centre
- T-Potters Café 2 Westport, Arbroath
- Turiff Library
- University of Aberdeen School of Lang & Lit, Old Aberdeen
- Woodend Barn Burn o’Bennie, Banchory
- Yeadons of Banchory 20 Dee St, Banchory
- Yeadons of Elgin
South
- AK Bell Library York Place, Perth
- Argyll & Bute Libraries
- Atkinson-Pryce Books 27 High St, Biggar
- Birnam Arts Centre Station Road, Birnam, Dunkeld
- Byre Theatre Abbey St, St Andrews
- Corbenic Camphill Community Trochry, Perthshire
- Dundee Contemporary Arts 152 Nethergate
- East Lothian Libraries Library HQ, Dunbar Road, Haddington
- Ewart Libraries Catherine Street, Dumfries
- Far from the Madding Crowd 20 High St, Linlithgow
- Giraffe Café 51-3 South Street, Perth
- Gracefield Arts Centre Dumfries
- J&G Innes Bookseller 107 South St, St Andrews
- John Muir Trust Pitlochry
- Kesley’s Bookshop 29 Market Street, Haddington
- Mainstream Trading Main St, St. Boswells, Roxburghshire
- Midlothian Council Libraries HQ 2 Clerk Street, Loanhead
- Prestongrange Museum Morrison's Haven, Prestonpans
- Stirling Libraries Library HQ, Borrowmeadow Road, Stirling
- Strathearn Community Campus Pittenzie Road, Crieff
- The Buccleuch Centre Langholm, Dumfries & Galloway
- The Forest Bookstore 26 Market Place, Selkirk,
- The Tolbooth & Albert Hall Jail Wynd, Stirling
- The Watermill Mill St, Aberfeldy
- Topping & Co 7 Greyfriars Garden, St Andrews
- University of Dundee School of Humanities, Dundee
- University of St Andrews School of English
- University of Stirling Dept. of English Studies
Edinburgh
- Amnesty Bookshop 12 Roseneath St, Marchmont
- Blackwells Bookshop 53-9 South Bridge
- Blood Donor Centre 41 Lauriston Place
- City Arts Centre 2 Market Street
- Edinburgh Bookshop 219 Bruntsfield Place
- Edinburgh College of Art Lauriston Place
- Edinburgh University Library
- Elephant House Café 21 George IV Bridge
- Filmhouse 88 Lothian Road
- Golden Hare Books 68 St Stephen St
- McNaughton's Bookshop
- Out of the Blue 36 Dalmeny St
- Oxfam Bookshop 210 Morningside Rd
- Oxfam Bookshop 25 Raeburn Place, Stockbridge
- Peter Green & Co Wine Merchants 37 Warrender Park Rd
- Scottish Poetry Library 5 Crichtons Close, Canongate
- St Margaret's House 151 London Rd
- Summerhall by East Meadows
- The Forest 141 Lauriston Place
- The Fruitmarket Gallery Market Street
- Word Power 43-5 W. Nicolson St
Glasgow
- An Leanag 22 Mansefuield St
- Café Hula 321 Hope Street
- Caledonia Books 483 Gt Western Rd
- Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall St
- Conservatoire 100 Renfrew St
- Gallery of Modern Art Royal Exchange Square
- Mitchell Library North St
- Mono King’s Court, 10 King St
- Òran Mòr 731 Gt. Western Road
- Oxfam Books 330 Byres Road
- Oxfam Books 437 Victoria Rd
- The Piping Centre 30 McPhater St
- University of Strathclyde English Studies, 26 Richmond St
- University of Glasgow ASLS, 7 University Gardens
- WASPS The Briggait, 141 The Bridgegate