The Mallaig Book Festival
A Write Highland Hoolie!
8 - 10 November 2024
Fri, 08 Nov
|Mallaig
A Write Highland Hoolie 2024
Welcome to A Write Highland Hoolie 2024
Time & Location
08 Nov 2024, 17:00 – 10 Nov 2024, 18:00
Mallaig, Davies Brae, Mallaig PH41 4QZ, UK
About the Event
A Write Highland Hoolie is Mallaig's Book Festival based in Mallaig at the end of the Road to the Isles. Date Friday November 8th - Sunday 110th 2024. Â This our ninth year of holding a Book Festival in Mallaig. It takes place at the West Highland Hotel, Mallaig, from late afternoon on Friday November 8th - late afternoon Sunday November 10th. We are once again providing a packed programme of well-known authors, as well as the extraordinary diverse musical talents, children's events and competition results and this year an adult poetry competition.
Tickets
Fri 5.00pm DON PATERSON & 🎶
Friday 5.00pm- 6.00pm - Toy Fights: A Boyhood - Don Paterson. Followed by the Deirdre Roberts Poetry Prize. Award-winning poet and writer Don Paterson takes us on a thought-provoking and frequently hilarious journey through his early years in Dundee before reading some of his poetry. A talented jazz musician and composer, he will also treat us to a tune or two. Includes complimentary dram.
£14.00Sat 9.30-10.30 LINDA CRACKNELL
9.30-10.30 Doubling Back: Paths Trodden in Memory - Linda Cracknell. Linda walks paths long mythologised by writers and relatives gone before across Norway, Kenya, Skye and Lindisfarne, charting how places immortalised in writing and memory can create portals through time and geography, allowing us to walk in the footsteps of others.
£8.00Sat 11.00-12 NATALIE SANDERS
11.00-12 noon - The Last Sunset in the West: Britain’s Vanishing West Coast Orcas - Natalie Sanders. In 2014 marine biologist Dr Natalie Sanders joined the crew of the Silurian to seek out the West Coast Community of orca and discover more about this fascinating, isolated pod. In her book, she discusses these intelligent marine mammals as individuals and explores the impact that pollution, entanglement, military sonar and climate change have on all our cetaceans.
£8.00Sat 1.30 GRAEME MACRAE BURNET
1.30-2.30pm - A Case of Matricide - Graeme Macrae Burnet. The final part in Booker Prize shortlisted Graeme’s trilogy of dark yet wryly humorous novels set in small-town France sees Chief Inspector Gorski struggle to find the connections between a seemingly unrelated series of events while grappling with his own demons.
£8.00Sat 3.00-4.00 SUZIE EDGE
3.00-4.00pm - Vital Organs: A History of the World’s most Famous Body Parts - Suzie Edge. With her dry wit, brilliant medical historian Dr Suzie Edge investigates how we’ve used, abused, experimented on and worshipped body parts, as we learn why Percy Shelley’s heart refused to burn; why a giant’s bones are making us rethink medical ethics; how Louis XIV’s rear end inspired the British National Anthem.
£8.00Sat 4.30-5.30 ALISTAIR MOFFAT
4.30-5.30pm - The Highlands and Islands of Scotland: A New History - Alistair Moffat. From the formation of the landscape millions of years ago to the present day, this informative and entertaining book is history as it has never been told before. Alistair brings to life the events and people that have shaped Highland history, while also shining a light on the experience of ordinary Highlanders and Islanders over thousands of years.
£8.00Sat 6pm DOUGIE STRANG & 🎶
6.00-7.00 - The Bone Cave - Dougie Strang & musicians Iain MacFarlane and Ingrid Henderson. Writer, storyteller and performer Dougie takes a journey into the Highlands, tracing a series of folktales and myths to the places in which they’re set, with atmospheric musical accompaniment from acclaimed duo Iain and Ingrid.
£14.00Sun 10.00-10.55 DAVID GREIG
10.00-10.55 - Columba’s Bones - David Greig. Writer and theatre director David has set his thrilling first novel on the island of Iona in AD 825. When a Viking raider wakes up alone and hungover after a night of rampage, he must use his wits to find the ancient relics of St Columba that brought him there and rejoin his comrades.
£8.00Sun 11.45-12.45 JENNY GRAHAM
11.45am-12.45pm - Coffee First then the World - Jenny Graham. 16 countries, 124 days and 18,000 miles - this is the story of how one woman and a bicycle conquered the world. Jenny will take us on the exhilarating ride of a lifetime, sharing stories and images from her adventures with humility, wit and honesty.
£8.00Sun 2.00-3.00 TOM O.KEENAN
2.00-3.00pm - The Sean Rooney Psycho-sleuth Series - Tom O. Keenan. Centred around a forensic profiler, the Sean Rooney Psycho-sleuth novels have been described as dark and gothic, with an increasing element of the supernatural and ghostly. Originally from the Glasgow area, Tom now lives in Morar, in an old farm close to Camusdarach Beach.
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