BOOKMARK CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS 2023


Jim Crumley
Jim Crumley

Jim Crumley, author of over 40 books on Scottish wildlife...

Patrick Galbraith
Patrick Galbraith

Patrick Galbraith was born and lived most of his younger...

Andrew Greig
Andrew Greig

Andrew Greig is a poet, full time writer and ‘sometime...

Lesley Glaister
Lesley Glaister

Lesley Glaister is a novelist, poet and playwright and teacher...

Owen O'Neill
Owen O'Neill

Owen O’Neill is a Northern Irish writer, actor, director and...

Don Paterson
Don Paterson

Don Paterson has recently been described as ‘one of the...

Rachel Joyce
Rachel Joyce

Rachel Joyce’s first novel, published in 2011, The Unlikely Pilgrimage...

Alan Taylor
Alan Taylor

Alan Taylor has worked as a librarian, journalist, editor of...

Shona - S G MacLean
Shona - S G MacLean

Shona MacLean’s two distinct series of award-winning books set in...

Sally Magnusson
Sally Magnusson

Sally Magnusson, a well-known face and voice of broadcasting, is...

Liam McIlvanney
Liam McIlvanney

Liam McIlvanney, born in Ayrshire, is a writer and academic...

Ambrose Parry
Ambrose Parry

Ambrose Parry is the pen-name for two authors: the best-selling...

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\n\n\n\nPatrick Galbraith was born and lived most of his younger years in Edinburgh and now lives in London where he works as a writer, journalist and editor. His interest lies in the natural world, and In Search of One Last Song recounts the journey he took around Britain seeking out our disappearing birds, talking to those trying to save them, meanwhile taking in the folklore, history, art and literature in which birds play a crucial part.

Our thanks to the Findlay Family for sponsoring this event

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Lesley Glaister is a novelist, poet and playwright and teacher of creative writing. Her first novel, Honour Thy Father (1990) won major awards. She will be discussing her new acclaimed novel, Blasted Things - the novel begins in 1917 in a casualty station on the Western Front. Clementina is a young auxiliary volunteer nurse.  We learn she has a fiancé in England, a young doctor called Dennis who opposed her decision to join up, but her experience in France makes one wonder about how a marriage to Dennis may turn out.

Our thanks to A Proctor Group for sponsoring this event

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Broken Songs is Owen O’Neill’s third volume of poetry and stories. He has lost none of his energy or heart, or sense of the ridiculous. His writing is highly personal with a raft of real-life characters leaping from the page.

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Miss Benson's Beetle - it is 1950 and, in a devastating moment of clarity, Margery Benson abandons her dead-end job and advertises for an assistant to accompany her on an expedition. She is going to travel to the other side of the world to search for a beetle that may or may not exist.

BOOKMARK 2023 Book of the Year Winner
will be announced by
Rachel Joyce

Tickets available from:
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 rhona.maclean@yahoo.co.uk
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or
Perthshire Box Office

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or
Perthshire Box Office

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Dr Philippou is a director of Tippermuir Books, a not-for-profit publishing company based in Perth, is coordinator of madeinperth.org a popular local history website and director of the Soutar Project, a Scottish government-funded project with the remit to publish the Complete Works of William Soutar.  He has recently been appointed to the Centre for Scottish Culture, University of Dundee.


Our thanks to the Poetry Association of Scotland for sponsoring this event

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or
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Perthshire Box Office\n

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Sally Magnusson - Music in the Dark - 1884. In a tenement room and kitchen in the town of Rutherglen, near Glasgow, a woman with stark injuries to her face and her mind, and a man who has recently arrived from America, spend the night together...\n

 Douglas Skelton - An Honourable Thief - 1715. A tale of two cities, and the man caught between them.\n\nThe Kingdom is riddled with a rumour. The late Queen Anne supposedly left a secret will promising the nation to her half-brother James – the man the Jacobites call the King Over the Water. With George I now settled on the throne, this document could prove devastating.

Jenny Brown established Jenny Brown Associates in 2002. She was previously Head of Literature at the Scottish Arts Council, presenter of book programmes for Scottish Television, and founder Director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival (of which she is now a Board member). She is also a former Committee member of the Association of Authors’ Agents and was shortlisted in 2014 and 2020 for Agent of the Year Award. She is former Chair of the Bloody Scotland crime writing festival (2011–21). She was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2021.

The Christine Findlay Prize winner
will be announced by
Sally Magnusson

Our thanks to Castle Water for sponsoring this event

Tickets available from: 
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Adventure into Books - 01250 872852 
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or
Perthshire Box Office\n

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Adventure into Books - 01250 872852
Blairgowrie Library - 01250 871305
or
Perthshire Box Office


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Our thanks to Hodge Solicitors LLP for sponsoring this event

Tickets available from:
Membership Secretary Rhona Christie  01250 875613
or
rhona.maclean@yahoo.co.uk
Adventure into Books - 01250 872852
Blairgowrie Library - 01250 871305
or
Perthshire Box Office

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