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The Wordplay festival got off to a flying start on Thursday evening, with an enthusiastic audience showing up to hear tennis coach and celebrity mother Judy Murray talk about her new autobiography, Knowing the Score. Interviewed on stage by festival curator Karen Cunningham, Murray gave an in... Read more...
The new curator of Shetland’s book festival believes there is “something for just about everyone” at this year’s edition, which begins tomorrow (Thursday) with a talk from Judy Murray. From giants of fiction writing to successful figures in the world of music and TV, the Wordplay programm... Read more...
Shetland Arts has appointed former head of Glasgow libraries Karen Cunningham, as the new curator of Wordplay, Shetland Arts' festival of words and ideas. Cunningham has a long-standing enthusiasm and interest for Shetland, and has described the role as "a dream opportunity". In addition t... Read more...
An award winning children’s book illustrated by Shetland based artist Jane Matthews was the subject of a fun interactive event at Mareel on Sunday morning. Aubrey and the Terrible Yoot is the work of Welshman Horatio Clare, whose story tackles heavy subject matter in a way that makes it accessi... Read more...
Thursday night’s Wordplay event saw an audience of around 30 congregate in Mareel’s auditorium to listen to Lesley Riddoch talk about her book Blossom: What Scotland needs to Flourish. (more…) Read more...
The author of the best selling novel Captain Corelli's Mandolin, which was made into a Hollywood film starring Penélope Cruz, is to appear at Shetland's eighth annual book festival. Louis de Bernières, whose latest book Notwithstanding: English Village Stories is due to be published in the ... Read more...
By LAURA FRIEDLANDER & ROSALIND GRIFFITHS THIS YEAR’S book and film festivals, Worldplay and Screenplay, attracted a record 1,200 people for a series of author events, workshops and film screenings last weekend. The highlight of the weekend was the appearance by novelist and columnist Will ... Read more...
WORDPLAY 2008, Shetland’s seventh annual book festival at Islesburgh Community Centre, will feature two important launches. The first, at 11am tomorrow, will be the launch of a new book of poetry by local poet Jim Moncrieff; the second at 12.45pm will be the launch of the Shetland Forwirds Dialec... Read more...
WORDPLAY 2008, Shetland’s seventh annual book festival, will feature a number of opportunities for budding creative writers of all ages to hone their writing skills and learn about different aspects of the art of creative writing with the help of some of the festival’s guests. The first day of ... Read more...