Saturday October 26

Templar Arts and Leisure Centre All tickets are £10 each

10am - Donald S. Murray: Herring Tales: How the Silver Darlings shaped Human Taste & History; a light-hearted and informative narrative about the history our love affair with the silver darlings

11. 30am - Rosemary Goring: Scotland: Her Story: The Nation’s History by the Women Who Lived It; brings to life the half of history that has for too long been forgotten or ignored!

1.30pm - Donald S. Murray: As the Women Lay Dreaming; a deeply moving novel of the Iolaire disaster, about passion constrained, coping with loss and a changing world. It explores how a single event can so dramatically impact communities, individuals and indeed, our very souls.

3pm - Melanie Reid: The World I Fell Out Of; on Good Friday, 2010, journalist Melanie Reid fell from her horse, breaking her neck, and fracturing her lower back. This is an unflinchingly honest memoir and a reminder that at any moment life can be turned upside down.

Stonefield Castle Hotel

Tickets for this evening event cost £15 each

7pm - A tasting of Kintyre’s very own gin from the Beinn an Tuirc Distillery Followed at 7:30pm by Freeland Barbour: The White Rose of Gask: The Life and Songs of Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne; Freeland is one of Scotland’s leading accordionists and he writes about his ancestor, who wrote more than 80 songs including the iconic ‘Charlie Is My Darling’ yet never acknowledged her authorship. Freeland is joined by actress Gerda Stevenson, to bring to life some of Lady Nairne’s traditional songs.