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AYE WRITE! Glasgow’s annual book festival returns
One of the best loved i xtures on the Scottish literary calendar, Aye Write! is Glasgow’s annual book festival, attracting more than 14,000 visitors each year with a packed programme of local, national and international talent. In March, the festival will once again arrive in the city for ten days of readings, workshops, debates and discussions, showcasing some of the most exciting emerging and established voices around. Taking place at venues across Glasgow, the programme will see Ruby Wax kicking off the festivities with an introduction to How to be Human: The Manual, the follow-up to her no.1 best-seller Frazzled. There will also be a return of the ever-popular ‘The Books That Made Me’ strand, in which a number of key i gures, including Scottish Makar Jackie Kay, share the books that
have had an inl uence on their lives and careers.
Elsewhere, Alan Taylor, author of the Muriel Spark
memoir Appointment in Arezzo, will be joined by Candia McWilliam and Zoe Strachan, in celebration of Spark’s centenary, and Stuart Cosgrove will also be stopping by to talk about Memphis 68, which explores that city’s relationship with soul music during a monumental period in American history. Other featured writers include Chris Brookmyre, Graeme Macrae Burnet, Gail Honeyman, Shami Chakrabarti, Maggie O’Farrell, American folksinger Peggy Seeger (pictured) and Nasty Women contributors Laura Lam, Mel Reeve and Sim Bajwa, who discuss their roles in the trailblazing 404 Ink project. (Arusa Qureshi) ■ Aye Write!, various venues, Glasgow, Thu 9–Sun 19 Mar.
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