End to end entertainment at Bookends Festival

Get ready for a week-long festival of the written and spoken word coming to Benderloch.

From Saturday September 22 to Saturday September 29, everyone is invited to go along and listen to authors read their novels, old and new, be dazzled by a storyteller or just relax in The Reading Room surrounded by lots of books.

Listen to authors, join in a writers’ open mic, try your hand at bookbinding, footstomp at a folk and Americana gig, catch a movie, experience theatre and grab the chance of a oneto-one with writer-in-residence Kenneth Stevens about your own written work,

- opportunities are bountiful at

Bookends 2018.

As if that’s not enough, there is the extra bonus of a fringe week to follow Bookends at its festival home in Victory Hall from Monday October 1 to Friday October 5.

Bookends founder Joy Cameron said: ‘We have once again transformed the 100-year-old wood-lined hall into a sumptuous reading room where bookshelves line the walls, stacked with pre-loved and new books of all kinds. ‘Relax on our comfortable couches and share a cuppa and a cake as you leaf through old favourites and discover new books which you can take away or read at your leisure.’

The Reading Room will be open to all from 11am until 6.30pm to come along and browse, swap and share books and chat. On some afternoons there will be local featured artists, storytellers and writers who will add to the occasion. Some evenings also have events put on by those who live in Oban and Lorn and have something ‘wordy’ to share.