The Linlithgow Book Festival is now less than one week away, so we thought it was time to preview some of the upcoming, unmissable events.
Launching the festival this year is Christopher Brookmyre, appearing at the Masonic Hall venue at 7:30pm on Friday 4th November. Mr Brookmyre is a prolific writer famous for his witty writing, but also his direct approach to important issues in politics and social commentary. With 14 novels published, he has become one of Scotland best-known authors.
There has also been significant critical success for Mr Brookmyre. His novel Quite Ugly One Morning was the winner of the Critics’ First Blood Award for Best First Crime Novel of the Year in 1996. Boiling a Frog, with events based around the Scottish Parliament, won the Sherlock Award for Best Comic Detective Novel in 2000, with an unprecedented second Sherlock award for Be My Enemy in 2004. The famous Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction award was won with All Fun and Games Until Someone Loses An Eye; a lengthy name for the Gloucestershire Old Spot pig associated with the award. Finally, Mr Brookmyre received the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award in 2007.
In the upcoming event the author will read, in his inimitable style, from his long-awaited new crime novel Where the Bodies are Buried, which introduces new characters to Brookmyre’s Glasgow: detective Catherine McLeod, actress Jasmine Sharp and long-dead gangland enforcer Glen Fallan.
This event is now sold out, for details of the rest of the programme, please visit the festival’s website - http://www.linlithgowbookfestival.org/
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