The Bookmark Festival
Blairgowrie Community Campus

Now in its fourth year, this lively book festival based in Blairgowrie, East Perthshire, has attracted some big literary names since its inception: Liz Lochhead, James Robertson, Andrew Greig, Alex Gray, Martin Bell, Janice Galloway.

This year’s programme promises an even greater variety of impressive literary talent. Headlined by James Naughtie, broadcaster, author and, until recently, key presenter of Radio 4’s ‘Today’ programme, the festival invites its audience to an intimate, friendly and professionally presented weekend festival.

BOOKMARK Festival 2016 featuring:

• James Naughtie ('Paris Spring'- Will Flemyng and 'The Madness of July') 
• Maggie O’Farrell (‘Instructions for a Heatwave’ and her latest, ‘This Must be the Place’ – release date May)
• Richard Holloway (controversial former Bishop of Edinburgh and prolific author ‘Forgiveness’, ‘A Little History of Religion’ – release date August)
• Sue Lawrence (food turned fiction writer – ‘Fields of Blue Flax’ and newly released, ‘The Night he Left’)
• Sir John Lister-Kaye, naturalist and conservationist (‘At the Water’s Edge’, ‘Gods of the Morning’)
• Stuart MacBride (international best-selling crime author of the Logan McRae series) Latest, ‘In the Cold dark Ground’, published January, 2016
• Sally Magnusson (Sunday Times Bestseller 'Where memories Go: Why Dementia Changes Everything')

Full programme and tickets available from Monday, 27th June >>>

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