Festival Information
Welcome to the fifth Aye Write! Book Festival. Once again we have a programme packed with great writers and thinkers and some fantastic debates.
This year - one of the most momentous for a decade and more - we face a UK wide general election against a backdrop of financial crisis and looming environmental problems. We’ve introduced some longer sessions this year looking at some of these critical issues: the future of money, globalisation, Scottish education, Scotland itself and the Left.
Our authors range from Albie Sachs, the great South African jurist and humanitarian, to Germaine Greer, who looks back on 40 years of feminism. Along the way, you’ll encounter among many others, Tariq Ali, Joanna Trollope, Michael Mansfield, Carol Ann Duffy, William Boyd, Susie Orbach, Jasper Fforde, David Dimbleby, the lives of the Left, food and cooking and sport. We’re delighted to be launching Louise Welsh’s new novel, and to have in the city some of the people involved in making Wallace and Gromit from Aardman Animations. We launch our Summer Read programme as well.
So if you want fictional and true crime, the latest debates in science, and on the existence of God (or not), Wallace and Gromit, new fiction, philosophy, poetry and history and more, The Mitchell is the place for you in March.
We would 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.
We look forward to seeing you at The Mitchell in March helping to make Aye Write! 2010 bigger and better than ever! Please follow us on Twitter and Facebook for the latest festival news.
Karen Cunningham, Director, Aye Write! Book Festival
Head of Libraries, Culture and Sport Glasgow
Andrew Kelly, Programme Director