Ruby Wax, Robert Peston and Graham Obree line up for Glasgow book festival…
GLASGOW’S annual book festival, Aye Write!, is to take on the turbulent world of 2018’s current affairs with a series of sessions with prominent journalists, writers and politicians.
Authors and writers at the festival, which runs from March 15 to March 25, will appear alongside Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, the former Conservative cabinet minister, journalists Robert Peston and Evan Davis, the Labour politician Baroness Shami Chakrabarti and leading lawyer Aamer Anwar.
Writers appearing at the festival, which this year takes place in venues across the city including the City Halls, Glasgow University and the Tramway, include Val McDermid, Maggie O’Farrell, Ruby Wax, the Makar or National Poet, Jackie Kay, and Professor AC Grayling.