ORGANISERS of the Colonsay Book Festival have announced the line-up of authors for the sixth annual Hebridean literary celebration.
The two-day event will take place on Colonsay in the Southern Hebrides on April 29 and 30 2017. This year’s programme marks the return of Alexander McCall Smith, million-selling author of The Ladies’ Number One Detective Agency, 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie books, who helped launch the Colonsay Book Festival in its inaugural year in 2012. Joining him are Masterchef winner and cookery writer-turned-novelist Sue Lawrence, crime writer and novelist Karen Campbell, historian and journalist James Hunter, Glasgow Makar Jim Carruth and his Edinburgh Makar counterpart Christine de Luca. More information at www.colonsaybookfestival.org.uk.