BOOKMARK CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS 2024


Olga Wojtas
Olga Wojtas

Olga Wojtas was first introduced to BOOKMARK audiences as...

Alexander McCall Smith
Alexander McCall Smith

Alexander "Sandy" McCall Smith, CBE, FRSE is a British-Zimbabwean writer...

Philip Paris
Philip Paris

Philip Paris is best known for his books about Orkney's...

{ "Params": { "source": "BOOKMARK Events", "searchscope": "{'prop_Date_Min':'2024-04-23'}", "sortby": "Date", "sortorder": "ASC", "limit": "500", "collectionvariable": "activities", "type": "module" }, "Pagination": { "CurrentPage": 1, "ItemsPerPage": 500, "NumberOfPages": 1, "TotalItemsCount": 4 }, "Parent": { "Id": 2218, "Name": "Authors", "Url": "/main-banner/authors", "Url_List": [ "/main-banner/authors" ], "UrlSlug": "authors", "ParentId": 1898, "ParentId_List": [ -1 ], "ParentName": "", "ParentUrl": "", "TemplateName": "", "Module_Alias": "MainBanner", "Module_ID": 1898, "Enabled": true, "ReleaseDate": "2020-01-23T01:00:00", "ExpiryDate": "2099-12-12T01:00:00", "SiteSearchKeywords": [], "Description": "", "Weighting": 0, "DisableForSiteSearch": false, "CreatedByMemberId": "0", "ItemCategories": [], "ItemCategoryIdList": [], "ItemTags": [], "Author": 0, "Author_Name": "", "Author_Url": "", "Item_Rating": 0, "BannerImage": "/images/inner-banners/old-books.jpg", "BannerText": "{% component type: \"snippet\", alias: \"bookmark\" %} Authors", "ShowPageForSearchEngine": true, "MetaTitle": "", "SEOTitle": "", "MetaDescription": "", "CanonicalLink": "", "SocialMetaTags": "", "SeoPriority": 0.5, "EnableAMP": false, "AMPContent": "", "OpenGraphProperties": { "title": null, "type": null, "url": null, "locale": null, "image": null }, "ExternalId": 0, "Params": { "source": "Main Banner", "layout": "List", "filterby": "name", "filtervalue": "Authors", "limit": "1", "type": "snippet", "alias": "bookmark", "name": "BOOKMARK", "content": "BOOKMARK", "enabled": true } }, "Items": [ { "Id": 4605, "Name": "BOOKMARK AGM and Desert Island Books", "Url": "/events/bookmark-agm-and-desert-island-books", "Url_List": [ "/events/bookmark-agm-and-desert-island-books" ], "UrlSlug": "bookmark-agm-and-desert-island-books", "ParentId": 1870, "ParentId_List": [ -1 ], "ParentName": "", "ParentUrl": "", "TemplateName": "", "Module_Alias": "BOOKMARKEvents", "Module_ID": 1870, "Enabled": true, "ReleaseDate": "2024-01-24T00:00:00", "ExpiryDate": "2099-12-31T00:00:00", "SiteSearchKeywords": [], "Description": "

Following on from the Annual General Meeting 


Our very own
Gail Wylie, {% component type: \"snippet\", alias: \"bookmark\" %} Chair
will be talking about our 
Desert Island Book 
what it is and why it’s been chosen. 
If you are coming along please submit your choice here in advance.
  We’ve already had a few and this promises to be a highly entertaining afternoon!

As refreshments will be available during the afternoon 
it would be helpful if you could let us know that you will be attending 

Please contact:  Rhona Christie
01250 875613 or email rhona.maclean@yahoo.co.uk 

\n

", "Weighting": 0, "DisableForSiteSearch": false, "CreatedByMemberId": "0", "ItemCategories": [], "ItemCategoryIdList": [], "ItemTags": [], "Author": 0, "Author_Name": "", "Author_Url": "", "Item_Rating": 0, "Date": "2024-05-18T14:00:00", "EndDate": null, "Location": "St Catharine's Community Centre, PH10 6EY", "Intro": "", "Image": "/images/blog/logo bright (2).jpg", "ImageDescription": "", "Image2": "", "Image2Description": "", "Image3": "", "Image3Description": "", "Time1": "", "Author_Writer": 0, "Author_Writer2": 0, "Author_Writer3": 0, "Author_Writer4": 0, "Author_Writer5": 0, "Author_Writer6": 0, "With": "", "WithAuthor": 0, "FestivalPrice": "", "MemberPrice": "", "Non_MemberPrice": "", "ShowPageForSearchEngine": false, "MetaTitle": "", "SEOTitle": "", "MetaDescription": "", "CanonicalLink": "", "SocialMetaTags": "", "SeoPriority": 0.5, "EnableAMP": false, "AMPContent": "", "OpenGraphProperties": { "title": null, "type": null, "url": null, "locale": null, "image": null }, "ExternalId": 0, "Params": {} }, { "Id": 4606, "Name": "BOOKMARK 2024 Launch with Olga Wojtas", "Url": "/events/bookmark-2024-launch-with-olga-wojtas", "Url_List": [ "/events/bookmark-2024-launch-with-olga-wojtas" ], "UrlSlug": "bookmark-2024-launch-with-olga-wojtas", "ParentId": 1870, "ParentId_List": [ -1 ], "ParentName": "", "ParentUrl": "", "TemplateName": "", "Module_Alias": "BOOKMARKEvents", "Module_ID": 1870, "Enabled": true, "ReleaseDate": "2024-01-24T00:00:00", "ExpiryDate": "2099-12-31T00:00:00", "SiteSearchKeywords": [], "Description": "
{% component type: \"snippet\", alias: \"bookmark\" %} 2024  Launch
with the welcome return of one of our patrons, 

Olga Wojtas
and the latest instalment of her heroine Shona McMonagle's adventures,
in 
Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Gondola of Doom.  


Anyone who has been to one of Olga's previous events knows that an entertaining afternoon is guaranteed!  \n

\nAfter refreshments and raffle, Gail Wylie, {% component type: \"snippet\", alias: \"bookmark\" %} Chair, will reveal the {% component type: \"snippet\", alias: \"bookmark\" %} 2024 Programme and the 'Box Office' will be open for the sale of Festival tickets including our very popular 'Weekend and Daily Passes'.\n

\nFor tickets please contact:
Rhona Christie at rhona.maclean@yahoo.co.uk 
or
 01250 875613\n
Adventure into Books - 01250 872852\n

", "Weighting": 0, "DisableForSiteSearch": false, "CreatedByMemberId": "0", "ItemCategories": [], "ItemCategoryIdList": [], "ItemTags": [], "Author": 0, "Author_Name": "", "Author_Url": "", "Item_Rating": 0, "Date": "2024-08-03T14:00:00", "EndDate": null, "Location": "St Catharine's Community Centre, PH10 6EY", "Intro": "", "Image": "/images/authors/olga-wojtas/miss-blaine-s-prefect-and-the-gondola-of-doom.jpg", "ImageDescription": "", "Image2": "", "Image2Description": "", "Image3": "", "Image3Description": "", "Time1": "", "Author_Writer": 2649, "Author_Writer_Name": "Olga Wojtas", "Author_Writer_Url": "/authors/olga-wojtas", "Author_Writer2": 0, "Author_Writer3": 0, "Author_Writer4": 0, "Author_Writer5": 0, "Author_Writer6": 0, "With": "", "WithAuthor": 3124, "WithAuthor_Name": "Ewan Morrison", "WithAuthor_Url": "/authors/ewan-morrison", "FestivalPrice": "", "MemberPrice": "9", "Non_MemberPrice": "10", "ShowPageForSearchEngine": false, "MetaTitle": "", "SEOTitle": "", "MetaDescription": "", "CanonicalLink": "", "SocialMetaTags": "", "SeoPriority": 0.5, "EnableAMP": false, "AMPContent": "", "OpenGraphProperties": { "title": null, "type": null, "url": null, "locale": null, "image": null }, "ExternalId": 0, "Params": {} }, { "Id": 2587, "Name": "Meet the Author - Alexander McCall Smith", "Url": "/events/meet-the-author-alexander-mccall-smith", "Url_List": [ "/events/meet-the-author-alexander-mccall-smith" ], "UrlSlug": "meet-the-author-alexander-mccall-smith", "ParentId": 1870, "ParentId_List": [ -1 ], "ParentName": "", "ParentUrl": "", "TemplateName": "", "Module_Alias": "BOOKMARKEvents", "Module_ID": 1870, "Enabled": true, "ReleaseDate": "2020-10-13T00:00:00", "ExpiryDate": "2099-12-12T01:00:00", "SiteSearchKeywords": [], "Description": "
{% component type: \"snippet\", alias: \"bookmark\" %} Book Festival at Perth Theatre

\n\n{% component type: \"snippet\", alias: \"bookmark\" %} Book Festival brings Sir Alexander (Sandy) McCall Smith to Perth.  This much loved writer will be joined by his friend and acclaimed journalist  Magnus Linklater: their wide-ranging  and captivating conversation will travel from Botswana to Edinburgh, alongside his rich and hugely engaging cast of characters including Mrs Ramotswe and Isabel Dalhousie. Sandy McCall Smith’s love of music, poetry, art and so many other interests will also feature in this unmissable and highly entertaining event.

Tickets available from: 
Membership Secretary Rhona Christie  01250 875613 
or 
rhona.maclean@yahoo.co.uk 
Adventure into Books - 01250 872852 
or
 Perthshire Box Office
01738 621031


\n\nMr McCall Smith's photograph is courtesy of Kirsty Anderson


", "Weighting": 0, "DisableForSiteSearch": false, "CreatedByMemberId": "0", "ItemCategories": [], "ItemCategoryIdList": [], "ItemTags": [], "Author": 0, "Author_Name": "", "Author_Url": "", "Item_Rating": 0, "Date": "2024-09-26T19:00:00", "EndDate": null, "Location": "Joan Knight Studio, Perth Theatre, Perth PH1 5UW", "Intro": "", "Image": "/images/authors/Alexander McCall Smith/AMS2- courtesy of Kirsty Anderson.jpg", "ImageDescription": "Alexander McCall Smith - Author", "Image2": "", "Image2Description": "", "Image3": "", "Image3Description": "", "Time1": "", "Author_Writer": 2688, "Author_Writer_Name": "Alexander McCall Smith", "Author_Writer_Url": "/authors/alexander-mccall-smith", "Author_Writer2": 0, "Author_Writer3": 0, "Author_Writer4": 0, "Author_Writer5": 0, "Author_Writer6": 0, "With": "", "WithAuthor": 2667, "WithAuthor_Name": "Magnus Linklater", "WithAuthor_Url": "/authors/magnus-linklater", "FestivalPrice": "15", "MemberPrice": "", "Non_MemberPrice": "", "ShowPageForSearchEngine": false, "MetaTitle": "", "SEOTitle": "", "MetaDescription": "", "CanonicalLink": "", "SocialMetaTags": "", "SeoPriority": 0.5, "EnableAMP": false, "AMPContent": "", "OpenGraphProperties": { "title": null, "type": null, "url": null, "locale": null, "image": null }, "ExternalId": 0, "Params": {} }, { "Id": 5003, "Name": "Meet the Author - Philip Paris", "Url": "/events/meet-the-author-philip-paris", "Url_List": [ "/events/meet-the-author-philip-paris" ], "UrlSlug": "meet-the-author-philip-paris", "ParentId": 1870, "ParentId_List": [ -1 ], "ParentName": "", "ParentUrl": "", "TemplateName": "", "Module_Alias": "BOOKMARKEvents", "Module_ID": 1870, "Enabled": true, "ReleaseDate": "2024-04-15T00:00:00", "ExpiryDate": "2099-12-31T00:00:00", "SiteSearchKeywords": [], "Description": "

The Last Witch of Scotland

… an historical fiction about love and sacrifice inspired by the extraordinary true story of Janet Horne, the last person in Britain to be executed for witchcraft.

", "Weighting": 0, "DisableForSiteSearch": false, "CreatedByMemberId": "0", "ItemCategories": [], "ItemCategoryIdList": [], "ItemTags": [], "Author": 0, "Author_Name": "", "Author_Url": "", "Item_Rating": 0, "Date": "2024-11-16T14:00:00", "EndDate": null, "Location": "St Catharine's Community Centre, Blairgowrie PH10 6EY", "Intro": "", "Image": "/images/authors/Philip Paris/The Last Witch of Scotland Cover.jpg", "ImageDescription": "", "Image2": "", "Image2Description": "", "Image3": "", "Image3Description": "", "Time1": "", "Author_Writer": 5001, "Author_Writer_Name": "Philip Paris", "Author_Writer_Url": "/authors/philip-paris", "Author_Writer2": 0, "Author_Writer3": 0, "Author_Writer4": 0, "Author_Writer5": 0, "Author_Writer6": 0, "With": "", "WithAuthor": 0, "FestivalPrice": "", "MemberPrice": "", "Non_MemberPrice": "", "ShowPageForSearchEngine": false, "MetaTitle": "", "SEOTitle": "", "MetaDescription": "", "CanonicalLink": "", "SocialMetaTags": "", "SeoPriority": 0.5, "EnableAMP": false, "AMPContent": "", "OpenGraphProperties": { "title": null, "type": null, "url": null, "locale": null, "image": null }, "ExternalId": 0, "Params": {} } ] } ID:5003 - a:, b: