A Write Highland Hoolie @ Mallaig
A Write Highland Hoolie is a new book festival based in mallaig.
Friday 21st October and Saturday 22nd October 2016
Speakers and authors include:
Sue Lawrence - author of 15 cookery books including "Sue Lawrence on Baking", "A Cook's tour of Scotland" and "Scottish Baking"
Alasdair Roberts - Tales of the Morar Highlands
Polly Pullar - books include: Dancing With Ospreys, Rural Portraits – Scotland’s Native Farm Animals, Characters & Landscapes, and Further Afield with a Camera.
Angus MacDonald - author of Ardnish at Home
Donald S Murray - winner of a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship, the Jessie Kesson Writing Fellowship and obtaining a Creative Scotland travel bursary for researching a non-fiction book about the herring industry – Herring Tale; How The Silver Darlings Shaped Human Taste And History (Bloomsbury). Featuring Mallaig alongside ports in locations as far away as Iceland, the western edge of Norway and Baltic coast of Germany, this book has received wide-ranging and excellent reviews in a large number of outlets, including the Spectator, Economist, Geographical, Scottish Review of Books and BBC Countryfile. It was chosen as one of the best Nature books of 2015 in the Guardian. His poetry has also been included among the Scottish Poetry Library’s Best Scottish Poems on three occasions in recent years. His previous books – including ‘The Guga Hunters’, ‘Weaving Songs’,‘The Guga Stone’ and‘SY StorY’ – have also been generously praised.
Jess Smith - Another author has confirmed she will be coming to Mallaig. The brilliant raconteur, Jess Smith, was raised as a Scottish Traveller. Her home a blue Bedford bus shared with parents and seven sisters was her base of many summers, and the platform for her colourful writing. She now lives in Glen Lednock with husband Dave, a keen photographer. Her life is dedicated to unearthing the little known history of the Tinker people for future generations. She began writing in 2000, and has a biographical trilogy, a novel, and a storybook. Her latest book, Way of the Wanderers, captures their turbulent history and reveals centuries of violence towards Travellers.
Michael F Russell - deputy editor of the West Highland Free Press. His debut novel ‘Lie of the Land’ documents an outsider’s journey towards uneasy redemption in a dystopian near-future Scotland. It was shortlisted for the Saltire Society’s First Book of the Year Award for 2015 and is out in paperback in June of this year. Russell grew up on the Isle of Barra and is a University of Glasgow graduate.
Jim Crumley - A nature writer with more than 30 books to his name, in the last few years he has written books about whales, wolves, the native forest of Scotland, eagles and the reintroduction of beavers. He has also begun a series of short monographs called “Encounters in the Wild” (the first four titles are Fox, Barn Owl, Hare and Swan).
Please see A Write Highland Hoolie website for full details
Date:
Locality:
- Mallaig
- Road To The Isles
Venue:
- West Highland Hotel
Address:
Links to useful information
Event Type:
- miscellaneous
- talk