A host of crime writers will return to Stirling for the fifth running of the Bloody Scotland Festival in September.
The festival this year is dedicated to the memory of the late William McIlvanney, and the Scottish Crime Book of the Year prize, awarded on the opening night of the festival, will be named the McIlvanney Prize.
Now in its 5th year, the Bloody Scotland Festival will run from the 9-11 September.
Appearing at the festival will be many popular crime and thriller writers including Val McDermid, Christopher Brookmyre, Ian Rankin, Nicci French, Mark Billingham, Martina Cole and MC Beaton.
The creator of the popular time-travel romance drama Outlander has been added to the line up of a new Scottish literary festival.
Diana Gabaldon will take part in the Saltire Society’s first virtual literary festival.
She will join authors Val McDermid, Michael Faber, A. L. Kennedy, Vic Galloway, Juno Dawson and Kirsty Logan for the Saltire Society’s first “virtual literary festival”, taking place between the 24 and 26 June.
The festival will also feature a live screening of William McIlvanney: Living With Words, a portrait of the late Scottish author.
