Two further events have taken place in bookshops as part of the build-up to Kirkcudbright Book Week.
Authors are visiting bookshops across Dumfries and Galloway during February as part of the run up to the fourth annual Book Week, which runs between March 3 and 9 (full details on www.kirkcudbrightbookweek.org)
The free events are supported by Kirkcudbright Book Week Society, partly to promote Book Week and also to thank bookshops for the support that they offer the festival. The events are funded by a £1,500 grant from Dumfries and Galloway Council, one of fourteen awards made to cultural and heritage projects across the region, totalling more than £62,000, from the new Regional Cultural Fund 2024/25.
Dalbeattie Books in High Street, hosted a drop-in session with author Alexis Fleming, the author of No Life Too Small, which tells the story of how she set up the Maggie Fleming Animal Hospice near Kirkcudbright, the world’s first animal hospice. Alexis and friends are pictured here during the visit.
She was joined by crime writer John Dean, Joint Book Week Co-ordinator, whose latest novel The Meek Shall Inherit (The Book Folks), has just been published.
Another event was hosted by Gallovidia Books in Kirkcudbright, who saw another crime writer, Lynne McEwan, visit the Gallovidia Murder Club, a book club which holds monthly Friday evening events in the shop to celebrate the classic crime novel. She talked about her series of crime books featuring DI Shona Oliver and set in Dumfries and Galloway.
Also part of the initiative, William Hussey, an award-winning author of more than a dozen novels, ranging from thrillers and books for Young Adults to Whodunnits, visited Waterstone’s in Dumfries to promote his new book The Boy I Love, 5, which is set in the First World War.
The final two events in the programme are:
Wigtown – Organised by Foggie Toddle Books, of Wigtown, and hosted in New Chapter Books, Main Street, Wigtown. Saturday February 15, 4pm. Des Dillon, poet, author and playwright, will read from his work and take part in a Question and Answer session. There will also be a selection of artworks from the author on display. Spaces are limited and booking via New Chapter Books or online with Eventbrite is advised.
Wigtown – Wigtown Church Hall, Lochancraft Lane, event organised by Foggie Toddle Books, Main Street. Friday February 21, 6pm Crime fiction and thriller author D V Bishop, whose books are published by Macmillan, will talk about writing, science-fiction and his character Cesare Aldo. His book A Divine Fury is published in paperback in January 2025.
This is a free event but tickets are required, available from New Chapter Books in association with Well Read Books, Agnew Crescent, and Foggie Toddle Books, all in Wigtown. All three shops can provide tickets, which are also available online on Eventbrite.
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