Perhaps not for everyone, but I thought I would draw attention to the 7th Inverness Book Festival which takes place between the 12th and 15th August at Eden Court and has some great local and national authors lined up. Amongst the authors is Andrew Greig who I rate one of Scotland's finest living authors. His most recent work is called 'At the Loch of the Green Corrie'. Andrew Greig was asked by his friend, the great scottish poet Norman MacCaig, shortly before his death 1996 to fish on his behalf in his favourite place on earth, the Loch of the Green Corrie in Assynt, Sutherland. ‘If you succeed, I shall be delighted. If you fail, then looking down from a place in which I do not believe, I shall be most amused.’ That trip developed into the book, a story of friendship, fishing, memoir, love, loss, Scotland and whisky.
But Greig is only one of many appearing. Check out the website www.invernessbookfestival.co.uk for more details