Tag Archives: book festivals

Keep reading, stupid

For the past twenty-five years I have been involved in one way or another with book festivals – as a board member, as a chair or moderator, as a presenter of my own work, and as a patron. Book festivals … Continue reading →

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Two writers

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This weekend I’m chairing two events at the Winter Words book festival in Pitlochry. The authors have a couple of things in common. They both come from the Northern Isles, one from Orkney, one from Shetland. And they are both, … Continue reading →

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Human and humane

I started this blog exactly four years ago, on 18th August 2009. I think it would have surprised me then to know that I would still be going four years later. In that first post I wrote this: ‘I want … Continue reading →

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The heart of things

Last month I was lucky enough to appear at two book festivals. One of them, the Edinburgh International Book Festival, is indisputably the world’s largest and this year was its best year ever, with a record 225,000 visits to Charlotte … Continue reading →

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