Ullapool Book Festival is pleased to announce that tickets (online only) for our event with Bernard MacLaverty will go on sale on Saturday 29 August at 10am from www.ticktsource.com/ullapool-book-festival.
This will be the festival’s very final event. Bernard will be chaired by the festival’s honorary president Chris Dolan. Bernard MacLaverty was born in Belfast and lived there until 1975 when he moved to Scotland with his wife, Madeline, and four children. He has published six collections of short stories and five novels. His latest book is Blank Pages & Other Stories. He has written versions of his fiction for other media – radio plays, television plays, screenplays (for Cal, for Lamb, and Midwinter Break and short film Bye-Child) and libretti for Scottish Opera. He is a member of Aosdana in Ireland.
The event will be held in Ullapool ferry terminal (upstairs) on Saturday 10 October at 2.30pm (doors open at 2pm). This final event is being held in memory of Ullapool Book Festival (UBF) committee member Catriona Martin who sadly died last November. UBF chair Joan Michael said “We all sorely miss her warmth, wit and wisdom. When buying tickets there will be an opportunity, if you wish, to make a donation which will be sent to the Renal Unit at Raigmore Hospital, Inverness where Catriona went for treatment three times a week for five years. She couldn’t praise the staff and her treatment there highly enough.”