Weekend passes for the 12th annual book festival are now on sale !
£55 will get you in to all 8 events and save you £9! Book early to avoid disappointment.
Single tickets at £8 are the cheapest in Scotland- probably in the U.K. They will go on sale at the end of September.
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The full line up for the 2025 Cove and Kilcreggan Book Festival has now been released.
The Saturday morning kicks off with former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon whose memoir will published at the end of August. She has been booked to appear at major venues in both Edinburgh and Aberdeen, but you can catch her for just £8 for the first session, or £55 for a weekend pass which lets you see everything in the weekend and represents quite the saving compared to buying single sessions.
Next up is legendary BBC correspondent Allan Little who has plied a distinguished trade in places as various as Moscow, Paris, Africa and the Balkans.
The poet Billy Letford, a former roofer, has published several books, many of them in the Scottish demotic. He’s also a very compelling reader of his own work.
Clare Hunter first came to the book festival to showcase her work on Mary Queen of Scots. This time round, her new book is about makers which has an obvious appeal to all the local makers who people various local societies.
On Sunday, book festival favourite Sally Magnusson kicks off the proceedings with a new novel published just before she appears. A regular presenter on Reporting Scotland until the Spring, she “retired” in order to pursue her stellar second career as a novelist.
Next up is the Palestinian lawyer and peace activist Raje Shehadeh and his wife Penny Johnson. They live for part of the year in the West Bank town of Ramallah, so have a very personal account to share about life in that troubled region.
After lunch the terrific crime writer Lin Anderson is on hand to talk not just about her latest work, but about a previous one set largely in Kilcreggan!
The proceedings close with author Sara Sheridan, a writer of many novels across very many genres many of which have been adapted for TV. She has also entertained us once before and will be talking about her work which encompasses the strange dearth of female statues in Scotland.
All the authors, as usual, will have very experienced chairs.
