In Brookmans Park, 20 miles north of London, Tracey Thorn has woken up and seen the stocking on the end of her bed. It will have a party blower in it, one of those puzzles where you move a little ball bearing around trying to get it into a hole, and, best of all, those Lindt chocolate animals.

But they're not heading for a football match at Hampden or a rugby game at Murrayfield. The latest incarnation of Anglo-Scottish rivalry is to take place in a library.

On Saturday, writers Christopher Brookmyre and Kevin Williamson will, at least metaphorically, pull on Scotland blue to take on England's Joe Dunthorne and Graham Joyce in a reading competition in Glasgow.

The Literary Death Match is one of a huge number of events being staged this week as part of Book Week Scotland.