Ullapool Book Festival, an intimate and welcoming literary festival now
entering its ninth year on the shores of Loch Broom in the Highlands of
Scotland. Please take a browse about our site for information on who has or will
be attending and when and where it happens. We hope to hear from you and see you
at the next festival.
"If a visitor from another country wanted a short but rich immersion course
in contemporary Scottish writing, he or she could do a lot worse than come to
Ullapool for three days in May. To any resident of Scotland – someone looking
for intelligent debate, informed entertainment, fine words and deep thoughts
that locate our country in the context of wider human and planetary concerns - I
would offer the same advice: come to the Ullapool Book Festival. You will be
challenged and surprised, you will laugh and perhaps cry, you will be warmed by
the friendly atmosphere and with luck by some fine spring weather, and you’ll
have the chance to browse in some of the best bookshops in Scotland. ‘Freedom
and whisky gang thegither,’ Robert Burns wrote. In my view, books and Ullapool
gang thegither too." James Robertson
Honorary President UBF
