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As Inverness grows and changes, so does the festival. We're gaining a reputation for great entertainment and intelligent discussion. So, we will see you at the festival then!

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When
From Monday 01 - Friday 05 October 2007.
Where
All events will take place in the Royal Highland Hotel, Station Road, Inverness except the pub quiz which is in Hootenanny, and the Neil Gunn lecture and Cameron McNeish at the Ness Bank Church.
Booking Details
Tickets can be purchased at the Eden Court Box Office by calling 01463 234 234, open Monday - Friday 10.30am till 5.00pm. Online reservation can be made through www.eden-court.co.uk.
Authors
We have 16 fantastic authors in our events this year including GP Taylor, Cameron McNeish, Des Dillon, Stuart MacBride, Scoular Anderson, A-L Kennedy and Iain Banks

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Our Book Festival Authors
Book lovers can look forward to sixteen top authors covering a wide range of subjects including political spin, the swinging scene, food, the great outdoors, crime, history, magic, hydroelectric power, and the future of the Union between England and Scotland.

For the first time the Festival will open with a pub quiz at Hootananny where all the questions are loosely based on books.

GP TAYLOR - SORCERY AND SHADOWS
Already billed by some as the next JK Rowling, GP Taylor's Shadownacer is a powerful story of mystery, magic, and the battle for good over evil as an eighteenth century sorcerer attempts to summon the dead to rule the modern world. This brilliant book for older children has enjoyed sell out success across the world, having been translated into 22 languages with GP Taylor himself being described as 'Hotter than Potter' by The Guardian. The latest exciting development is that the movies rights for Shadowmancer have just been snapped up. with Hollywood stars Johhny Depp and Mel Gibson rumoured to being involved in the big screen version.

KATIE GRANT - HEADS AND HATBOXES
Katie is one of Scotlands most exciting new writers for young adults. Her captivating adventures are set at the time of the crusades and follow a feisty heroine, a mythical horse, evil traitors and two brothers determined to become noble knights and join King Richard on the Crusades. Her first novel, Blood Red Horse, the initial part of the DeGranville trilogy, was published in 2004 and was closely followed by the second and third installments of Green Jasper and Blaze of Silver. All three books have wowed the critics with their epic tales of bravery and honour on the journey to Holy Land. A freelance journalist and part-time teacher of Medieval History at Glasgow University, Katie knows her subject. Her talk is called 'Heads and Hatboxes' and will appeal to anyone with a sense of adventure and imagination.

KENNETH WHITE - THE HIGHLAND RIVER
Glasgow born Kenneth White is one of the most daring of Europe's writers, thinkers and poets. A former Chair of 20th Century Poetics at the Sorbonne, he holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh and the Open University, is an honorary memebr of the Royal Scottish Academy, and is Visiting Professor at the UHI Millennium Institute. In their 21st anniversary of the publication of Gunn's Highland River. Taking this book as his principal reference, White will follow the Highland River from its source to its estuary, exploring culture resources in the Highlands and Islands, and opening up new poetic, intellectual and cultural territory for the future.

CAMERON MCNEISH - WILD SCOTLAND
Possibly Scotland's most passionate advocate of the great outdoors, Camerons books are the essential guide for Munro baggers and fresh air enthusiasts. He is outspoken in his views, often controversial, but always entertaining; whether it's wind farms or the right to roam. For this event Cameron will give a presentation and take your questions on the subject of Wild Scotland - A Spirit of Place. He'll look at wild land in Scotland, our relationship with it, how best we can protect this country and it's cultural links. Cameron is president of the Backpackers Club, Vice President of the Ramblers' Association in Scotland, Chairman of the Nevis Partnership and a Trustee of the Wilderness Foundation.

EMMA WOOD - HYDRO BOYS
Take part in a fascinating discussion with writer Emma Wood whose book Hydro Boys is a bestselling account of the pioneering days of power generation in the Highlands. Hydro power is back in the spotlight as Scotland tries to figure out how to cut down on carbon emmisions. A new Hydro scheme at the south end of Loch Ness is one of the biggest ever and has revived memories of the massive construction effort across the Highlands some fifty years ago. Emma will be presenting photographs from those early days and discussing the lasting legacy created by those brave boy
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Aaron Ramsay
Hello. So what's the story with the book festival then? I'm trying to become an author, and my first book is hopefully somewhere through the process of being published right now, but I've never heardof this before?
7 weeks ago
Highlandfreepress
I dont read books I read BeB0
21 weeks ago
 
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