Broadcasters Kirsty Wark and Sally Magnusson will be joined by former Home Secretary Alan Johnson at this year’s Cove and Kilcreggan Book Festival.
With the burgh hall closed because of Covid-19 restrictions, this year’s event will be digital format, as with similar events across the UK in 2020.
People on the peninsula and all over the country will be able to watch the events online, with three talks in the morning of Saturday November 21 and three in the afternoon.
They will be available afterwards but organisers have asked people to log in on the day – a link will be available nearer the time.
Kirsty Wark and Sally Magnusson will talk about their new novels, while Mr Johnson will discuss the pop songs which punctuated his life, as described in his best-selling memoir.
Peter Ross, whose newly-published A Tomb With A View has had wonderful reviews, will talk about his fascinating journey round graveyards near and far, and the tales they tell.
Peter Geoghegan’s timely book Democracy For Sale has already raced up the charts with its tales of dark money and manipulated social media and their involvement in elections and referendums.
And completing the line-up is Clare Hunter whose Threads Of Life was a Radio 4 book of the week and Waterstone’s book of the month.
It tells the tales of how people have used sewing through the ages to make cleverly silent protests, from Mary Queen of Scots to the mothers of lost children in Argentina.
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