The Mallaig Book Festival
A Write Highland Hoolie!
8 - 10 November 2024
A Write Highland Hoolie Programme 2024
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 8th
5.00pm TOY FIGHTS: A BOYHOOD
Don Paterson
&
Announcement of the winner of the Deirdre Roberts Poetry Competition 2024
DINNER 7.30pm
Music in the Bar
Ross Martin & Eilidh Shaw
(Toy Fights ticket holders and residents only)
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 9th
9.30-10.30am DOUBLING BACK: TEN PATHS TRODDEN IN MEMORY
Linda Cracknell
11-12 noon THE LAST SUNSET IN THE WEST: BRITAIN’S VANISHING WEST COAST ORCAS
Natalie Sanders
LUNCH 12.15-1.15pm
1.30-2.30 pm A CASE OF MATRICIDE
Graeme Macrae Burnet
3.00-4.00pm VITAL ORGANS: A HISTORY OF THE WORLD’S MOST FAMOUS BODY PARTS
Suzie Edge
4.30-5.30pm THE HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND: A NEW HISTORY
Alistair Moffat
6.00-7.00pm THE BONE CAVE: A JOURNEY THROUGH MYTH & MEMORY
Dougie Strang with music from Ingrid Henderson & Iain MacFarlane
DINNER 7.30pm
Music in the Bar
Ingrid Henderson & Iain MacFarlane
(The Bone Cave ticket holders and residents only)
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 10th
10.00-10.55am COLUMBA’S BONES
David Greig
11.00-11.15am – REMEMBRANCE DAY - minute’s silence, piping
& reading by Angela Gilchrist
11.45 -12.45 COFFEE FIRST THEN THE WORLD
Jenny Graham
LUNCH 1.00-1.45pm
2.00-3.00pm THE SEAN ROONEY PSYCHO-SLEUTH SERIES
Tom O. Keenan
3.30pm GRAND FINALE PRIZE-GIVING TEA PARTY
KEVIN THE ORANGE
Alan Windram
Gaelic singing – Mallaig Primary School
5pm FESTIVAL ENDS