Ullapool Book Festival - The Sequel tickets on sale as stage set for top authors
TICKETS are now on sale for the first of this year’s one-day events following on from 19 years of weekend-long Ullapool Book Festivals.
UBF – The Sequel will be held in The Ceilidh Place venue on Saturday, June 22.
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It will start at 10.30am and finish around 5pm.
The programme is:
10.30am Eleanor Thom - Her first novel, The Tin-Kin, won the Saltire First Book of the Year Award. In 2023 she was named one of Jewish Literary Foundation’s Genesis Emerging Writers 23/24.
Eleanor’s research on her grandmother while writing Connective Tissue, her second novel which she will talk about here, was presented to the Bundestag in 2022 during proceedings to change Germany’s citizenship laws.
As a result, along with her mother and her children, Eleanor was granted dual German citizenship on grounds of restitution. It will be chaired by Mark Wringe.
At noon, William Letford is the focus. He published his first collection of poetry while working as a roofer. Since then, his work has been adapted into film, projected onto buildings, carved into monuments, adapted for the stage, written onto skin, cast out over the radio, and performed by orchestras.
He has been invited to perform in Iraq, South Korea, Lebanon, Australia, Germany, India, Poland, and many more countries. This session is also chaired by Mark Wringe
At 2.30pm Ruth Wishart takes the spotlight. A journalist with a very impressive CV, she is currently a columnist with Sunday National and Helensburgh Advertiser. She was formerly assistant editor at several national newspapers.
A spokeswoman for the event said: “She has been chairing events at UBF since the very early days so we thought it was time to turn the tables and bring here to The Sequel to talk about her many years and experiences as a journalist.”
That session will be chaired by Chris Dolan.
At 4pm, David Greig is in the hot seat. David is a Scottish playwright whose plays have been performed widely in Scotland and around the world. These include Midsummer, The Events, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, Local Hero, and The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart.
He is currently the artistic director at Edinburgh’s Lyceum Theatre. Columba's Bones is his first book. It has been long-listed for this year’s Highland Book Prize. Chris Dolan chairs the session.
Tickets on sale at www.ticketsource.co.uk/ullapool-book-festival
