Denise Mina.
Th ere are still tickets available to attend the various workshops at the long-awaited Tarbert Book Festival.
In its sixth round, the annual programme of literary and poetic expression will run from Friday October 26 to Sunday October 28 and host writers from all over Argyll. On Saturday October 27, Robert Louis Stevenson is the subject of the opening sessions of this year’s weekend with Liz Shaw bringing her historical novel, No Safe Anchorage, followed by Bella Bathurst talking about The Lighthouse Stevensons, and Joseph Farrell concentrating on a new account of the final years the Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde author spent in the South Pacific, with his book Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa.