Festival Information
The fifth Aye Write! Book Festival featured a packed programme of great writers and thinkers - and some fantastic debates. Many events were sold out, which indicates just how popular the Festival has become since it started in 2005.
This year - as we face a UK wide general election against a backdrop of financial crisis and looming environmental problems - we introduced some longer sessions. This gave us a chance to look at some issues in depth: the future of money, globalisation, policing, Scottish education, Scotland itself and the Left.
Our authors ranged from Albie Sachs, the great South African jurist and humanitarian, to Germaine Greer, who looked back on 40 years of feminism. Some others you would have encounterd :Tariq Ali, Joanna Trollope, Michael Mansfield, Carol Ann Duffy, Sandi Toksvig, William Boyd, Susie Orbach, Brian Keenan and David Dimbleby.
Topics included: religion, philosophy, poetry, spying, food, cooking and sport. Not forgetting a visit from the people behind Wallace and Gromit. New fiiction played a central role as always and we were delighted to host the launch of Louise Welsh’s new novel. And we found time to launch our Summer Read programme as well!
The Festival would of course be nothing without our supporters and sponsors, the publishers who work with us to bring this programme to you each year, the library staff, and you, the audience, who attend in ever increasing numbers each year and join in the passionate debates that take place.
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Karen Cunningham, Director, Aye Write! Book Festival
Head of Libraries, Culture and Sport Glasgow
Andrew Kelly, Programme Director
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