Mallaig’s unique Book Festival - authors, music & wonderful food all under one roof

Joined March 2016
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Sat Nov 9 @ 3.00pm the brilliantly hilarious @suzieedge will be with us to talk about her sensational ‘body’ of work including Vital Organs - A History of the World’s Most Famous Body Parts .. prepare for surprises & lashings of humour.Tickets a-write-highland-hoolie.com
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We can’t wait to have Graeme with us to chat about his latest brilliant novel - A Case of Matricide - come & see him on Saturday Nov 9 @ 1.30pm in the West Highland Hotel, Mallaig @SarabandBooks @scottishbktrust @TheRoadTTIsles @BreegeSmyth Tickets: a-write-highland-Hoolie.com
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11am Saturday 9 Nov come & hear Natalie Sanders talking about the fascinating west coast pod of #orcas v occasionally seen from our beautiful venue West Highland Hotel, Mallaig @HWDT_org @whalesorg @mcsuk @ColinSpeedie Tickets: a-write-highland-hoolie.com #cetaceans #MarineLife
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Saturday Nov 9 @9.30am the adventurer @jennygrahamis will chat to another adventurer @LindaJCracknell about Linda’s great book Doubling Back - a walking epic. Guaranteed to be a lively, inspiring event: tickets: a-write-highland-hoolie.com @mallaighotel #Mallaig @SarabandBooks
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Friday 8 November 5pm the brilliant Don Paterson will talk about his memoir Toy Fights,his poetry & play his guitar then announce the winner of our poetry competition - what a great start to this year’s Hoolie. Tickets: a-write-highland-hoolie.com @scottishbktrust @ByLeavesWeLive
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Join @GMacraeBurnet on tour throughout October and November, to celebrate the launch of #ACaseOfMatricide Further details and ticket information can be found here: saraband.net/event/graeme-ma… We hope to see you there! #BookTour #BookEvents #BookTwitter
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For god sake @BBCNews - we face the most important election in our nation’s history, you totally ignore the environment, and for three bulletins in a row you lead with the 106th person in line to the throne having concussion. Do you understand the concept of news values?!
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We are delighted to launch Deirdre Roberts Poetry Competition 2024. This year we are asking for humorous poems. To enter follow the link below to the Hoolie website a-write-highland-hoolie.com/…
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🥳💐🎊 A very orangetastic #HappyPublicationDay to @akwindram and #OllaMeyzinger as the gorgeously funny #picturebook #KevinTheOrange publishes today. Available online or from your favourite #bookshop Here's a peek inside 😀
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Oh my goodness! What a start to our festival ⁦@DuncanWChisholm⁩ ⁦@NapierHamish⁩ ⁦⁦@JimCMackintosh⁩ #Beyond the Swelkie #GeorgeMackayBrown
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Great to be back at @WriteHoolie!!
Just warming up for @WriteHoolie @DuncanWChisholm @NapierHamish Ewan Robertson @pollypullar1
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We apologise that Jenny Colgan has had to cancel but in her place we are excited to have the brilliant ⁦@MoogStuff⁩ shortlisted for Saltire Scottish First Book of the Year 2023. 11am Sat 11 Nov - we will refund tickets if you prefer not to join us for this instead
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The brilliant ⁦@Lin_Anderson⁩ will be talking about her latest book The Wild Coast - Sunday Nov 12th 2pm in the West Highland Hotel & this dark tale is set in a #campsite oh so close to us here in #Mallaig@BloodyScotland#crimewriting@TheRoadTTIsles
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Come & join acclaimed author & TV presenter ⁦@Jdcrawf⁩ for a wonderful session Sunday Nov 12th 10am at the West Highland Hotel - tickets: a-write-highland-hotel.com@BirlinnBooks#Scotland #History #wildplaces
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If you are interested in the animal kingdom, if you are interested in the past, present & future of planet Earth; if you interested in anything at all- then this gorgeous, joyous, sobering book is for you Beastly - ⁦@KeggieC⁩ Sat 11 Nov 4.15pm tickets on door or our website
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Darkland Tales with the brilliant @DameDeniseMina Sat Nov 11th 2.45pm in the West Highland Hotel #Mallaig Don’t miss it. Tickets: a-write-highland-hoolie.com #crime #history #murder@BirlinnBooks⁩ ⁦@BloodyScotland⁩ ⁦@TheRoadTTIsles
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‘History according to Hugh McMillan’. Hugh judged The Deirdre Roberts Poetry Competition. He will present our winner with the prize during his own superb event - guaranteed to be full of Hugh’s trademark wit: 1.15pm Nov 11th - tickets a-write-highland-hoolie.com #poetry
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