Tickets selling out fast for final Ullapool Book Festival
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DAYS after tickets went on sale for the last Ullapool Book Festival many events have already sold out.
Tickets for the 19th – and final – Ullapool Book Festival went on sale on Saturday, March 11.
Four events at the acclaimed Book Festival have now sold out. The remaining tickets are also moving fast.
A book festival spokesperson said: "Tickets for the final book festival went on sale last Saturday morning and by mid–afternoon the session with Linda Bauld, Gavin Francis and Jeane Freeman had sold out. By Monday afternoon all the tickets for the final event of the final festival with Don Paterson and Graeme Stephen had also gone. At the time of writing this on Monday night there were several events with fewer than 20 tickets remaining.
"So if you want to experience the festival for the last time get on the website, read the programme, and get booking. There is real variety in the range of events still available– they are all gems in different ways."
But there is still time to buy tickets for the Book Festival taking place on May 5/6, with a range of events and speakers such as Tom Devine and Puja Changoiwala.
Sir Tom Devine is Sir William Fraser Professor Emeritus of Scottish History and Palaeography at the University of Edinburgh. He has also held Professorial Chairs at Aberdeen and Strathclyde, of which he was Deputy Principal. He was knighted in 2015 by HM Queen Elizabeth II ‘for services to the study of Scottish history’, the only historian ever to be so honoured. For the opening event of the final festival he will deliver a talk on The Origins of Tartanry? A Puzzle from the Scottish Past.
Puja Changoiwala is an award–winning journalist and author of three books. Puja’s reportage has been published across the likes of BBC, CNN, The Guardian, The Washington Post, National Geographic and Al Jazeera. She will talk about her latest fiction book, Homebound. Things were going well for Meher and her family until the Indian government announced the world’s largest coronavirus lockdown. As Covid–19 cases in their Mumbai slum soar, Meher and her family realize that they have no choice but to leave for their village in Rajasthan. With the ban on public movement, it becomes clear that they would have to walk the 900 kms, facing barbaric police officers, searing heat, wild beasts and indifferent deities. A deeply moving story about family, survival and relentless hope, Homebound brings to the page the stark realities of those who have remained too long without a voice.
The programme is now on the website www.ullapoolbookfestival.co.uk and to buy tickets, visit: www.ticketsource.co.uk/ullapool-book-festival.
If you don’t have access to the internet and can’t book online, you can call Ticket Source on 0333 666 3366. A telephone service fee of £2 applies to all completed bookings.
