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Day 1 - Thursday 5th March - World Book Day

Kirkcudbright Library invites the local nursery and primary school children to attend talks with authors for World Book Day. Visitors are welcome too, please contact the library on 01557 332516 if you are interested in joining the free events.

10.00 am - Jane Baldwin

2.00pm - Alan McClure - Poet, Musician and Children's Author Alan McClure will look at how nature and landscape can provide inspiration for tales and songs. With readings from his Kelpies-Prize shortlisted novel Callum and the Mountain, and its sequel, Callum and the Other.

2.30pm - The Story of a Fairy Family: A Portable Archive - DJ McDowall and Peter Hewitt

4.30pm - Ian Crofton: Upland: Exploring Mountains, Hills and Time 

7.30pm - Michael Crick: Leadership: From Michael Heseltine to Nigel Farage and Beyond

Day 2 - Friday 6th March

11.00am - Kirkcudbright Poetry Group: Hexameter

2.30pm - Philip Miller:The Diary of Lies: the New Shona Sandison Mystery

5.00pm - Beaty Rubens: How listening to the radio transformed home life

7.00pm - Robert  Crawford: Capturing the Bard

Day 3 - Saturday 7th March

10.00am - Three Scribblers:same passion, different genres - Moffat Writers Ink

11.30am - Carrie Marshall: Collective Joy, Liberation and Music: LGBT grooves in modern Scotland

1.00pm - Julie McNeill & Ged O’Brien:The Field of Dreams: Stories, histories and celebrating the local

2.30pm - Rosemary Goring: Treachery, Deceit, Hope and Despair: The Life of Mary, Queen of Scots

5.00pm - Richard McLauchlan: How bagpipes made Scotland and the world

7.00pm - Brian Groom: These Isles: The Fascinating Story of Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales

Day 4 - Sunday 8th March

11.30am - Echoes of Galloway: a presentation of readings by the Stewartry Writers

1.00pm - Darryl Cunningham:Telling Stories a Different Way: Elon Musk and the modern world

2.30pm - Gary West: From the revival of folk music to the new music of Martyn Bennett

4.00pm - Samantha Dooey-Miles & Irene Paterson: New Voices on Crime and Modern Life

5.30pm - Fiona Gibson: The Woman Who Turned Her Life Around

7.00pm - Susi Briggs & Adam Blake: Book Festival Closing Party