Two events in this year’s Cove and Kilcreggan Book Festival have already sold out.
All tickets to see Channel 4 newsreader Jon Snow the king of crime fiction Ian Rankin, both scheduled for Saturday November 25.
Waiting lists for these events are now filling up on the Cove Burgh Hall website, so organisers have asked anyone who has booked tickets but can’t make it to get in touch via this contact form.
Tickets are still available for the other events, with tickets for each one costing £6, or £2.40 for children under 14, and they can be booked via the burgh hall website for Saturday here and Sunday here.
Launching the event at 10.30 on the Saturday will be Sara Trevelyan, who founded the Gateway Centre in Edinburgh with her husband Jimmy Boyle.
Then from 12-1 the speaker will be Glasgow’s Makar Jim Carruth and following lunch Paul MacAlinden, the conductor who was the inaugural director of the National Youth Orchestra of Iraq, will be on stage from 2-3pm.
There will be a food and drink theme on Sunday, launched at 10.30 by former Masterchef winner Sue Lawrence, whose latest cookery offering is The Scottish Soup Bible – but she is also a novelist whose latest work, based around the Tay Rail Bridge disaster is The Night He Left.
Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, founder and chief executive of Mary’s Meals, will appear from 12 noon to 1pm.
After lunch Aasmah Mir, co-presenter of Radio 4’s Saturday Live programme and reporter for ITV’s current affairs programme Tonight will take the stage with her sister Uzma Mir-Young, a television and radio producer/director.
Together they have formed Cracking Curries.
Rachel McCormack will close the festival, with a talk starting at 3.30pm – she has written Chasing the Dram, a travelogue laced with her customary wit and many ingenious whisky recipes.
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