Welcome! “where The 2015 Winter Words programme contains a wide-ranging, imaginative and enticing line-up of great minds and great writers Scotland's - the perfect way to celebrate the final days of Winter (and look forward to the first signs of Spring) amidst the spectacular landscape of Highland Perthshire! Literary As always, a number of themes weave their way through this year's celebration of the written and the spoken word: the eagle-eyed year gets will quickly discover strands concerned with Scottish history and culture, wild spaces and the natural world, the arts and media and into gear” rural life running throughout the programme of events. From Buckingham Palace to Border Ballads, elegant birds of prey The Scotsman to the Battle of Bannockburn, from the Isle of Muck to munros at midnight, and from the Cairngorms to the Commonwealth (not to mention the inaugural inclusion of the Banff Film Festival and a manuscript assessor from Moniach Mhor), there’s a vast range of stimulating and entertaining activity to explore at this year’s Winter Words. The unique Fearie Tales writing competition (with free Fearie Tales performances in the Foyer) returns again this year, as does the ever-present Book Fair, a 3 day Creative Writing course and the very popular Poetry Please! sessions. Now in its eleventh year, Winter Words remains the place “where Scotland's Literary year gets into gear” (The Scotsman). So book your tickets today! Pitlochry Festival Theatre is a Company Limited by Guarantee Registered in Scotland Number SC029243 at the below address. Scottish Charity Number SC013055 Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Creative writing courses tutored Pitlochry, PH16 5DR | Administration: 01796 484600 | Fax: 01796 484616 | Box by some of the finest authors Office: 01796 484626 | Email: boxoffice@ PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com | Website: from the UK and beyond. www.PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com 2015 Programme available now www.moniackmhor.org.uk | [email protected] | 01463 741675 01796 484626 • PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com 01 Winter Words ad a5.indd 1 07/11/2014 16:56:51 7.00pm – 9.45pm 1.00pm–2.15pm | £23.50 Friday 13th £13.50/£12 concession Kenneth Calman 10.00am-11.00am | £7.50 Banff Mountain Film A Doctor’s Line Tickets & Book Fair Roger Hutchinson Festival 2.45pm-5.00pm | £10.00 St Kilda: A People’s History 10.00pm–11.00pm | Free Cynthia Rogerson Ways to Book! 11.30am-12.30pm | £7.50 Fearie Tales Doctor Writer Sessions Phone: 01796 484626 | Online: www.PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com Catriona Macdonald and 3.00pm- 4.00pm | £9.50 In Person: at the Theatre Box Office | Email: [email protected] Dr. Patricia Andrew Sunday 15th Kenneth Steven Scotland at War – Art and Heart Iona: The Other Island 10.00am-11.00am | £7.50 1.00pm–2.15pm | £23.50 Concessions: James Crawford 4.30pm-5.30pm | £9.50 Polly Pullar • Friends/Supporter Book Fair! Scotland’s Landscapes Bernard MacLaverty From 10.00am - 6.00pm Friday, Saturday and Sunday The Isle of Muck Telling Stories Cardholders | Groups (10+) : 11.30am-12.30pm | £7.50 The Winter Words bookstall is organised by Yeadon’s Booksellers, 3.00pm-4.00pm | £8.50 10% off tickets Jim Crumley 7.30pm-9.00pm | £14.50 who will be selling signed books by guest authors throughout James Robertson The Eagle’s Way Penny Junor • Disabled Badge Holders: 20% the Festival. Yeadons have two shops in Elgin and Banchory, both and Jill Calder Behind the Scenes at Buckingham off tickets of which are beautifully decorated and stocked with carefully Robert the Bruce: King of Scots 1.00pm-2.15pm | £23.50 Palace chosen, eclectic selections of books. Well worth a visit (or three!), Keith Williams & • Students | U18s | Registered 4.30pm-5.30pm | £8.50 9.30pm–10.30pm | Free Event their staff are all professional booksellers, dedicated, enthusiastic Caroline Brown Unemployed : 50% off tickets Robyn Young Fearie Tales and knowledgeable, who will also be around throughout the day War Poems of Joseph Lee Only Friends/Supporter Cardholders Rebels and Kings concessions apply to Literary Lunches. to help and advise. Order (or reserve) a book today! 3.00pm-4.00pm | £9.50 7.00pm-8.15pm | £10.00 Saturday 21st All ticket prices and concessions are You can now order or reserve any book by a Winter Words author Ann Cleeves subject to availability. Allan Little Bringing Shetland to the Screen 10.00am–11.00am | £5.00 in advance of their event. Simply go to www.yeadons.co.uk and Bringing Home The News complete an order/reservation form. You can also make 4.30pm-5.30pm | £9.50 New Writing Scotland 8.45pm–9.45pm | Free a dedication! Alan McCredie 11.30am-12.30pm | £7.50 Fearie Tales A Portrait of a Nation Books will be charged at full retail price plus postage and packing Helen & William Bynum 7.00pm-8.30pm | £12.50 Remarkable Plants That Shape Our (10% of retail price UK) and you won’t be charged until dispatch. Saturday 14th Lives You can also save on postage by picking up your book at our Andrew Greig & Bookstall which is open throughout the Festival. 10.00am-11.00am | £7.50 Rachel Newton 1.00pm-2.15pm | £23.50 Border Ballads Theresa Talbot Patrick Baker Life in the Garden Secrets of the Cairngorms TUES 17TH – THUR 19TH 1.15pm-2.00pm | Free 11.30am-12.30pm | £7.50 WRITING COURSE Poetry Please Pitlochry Station Bookshop Judy Fairbairns 10.30am – 4.30pm | £125 The unique Pitlochry Station Bookshop will be running a second Island Wife 3.00pm–4.00pm | £9.50 hand and new bookstall in the theatre foyer throughout the Write On! 1.00pm–2.15pm | £23.50 3 Day Writing Course Christopher Brookmyre Festival. The Station Bookshop sells a wide range of donated Dead Girl Walking Linda Cracknell books to raise money for many different charities. Bestsellers, Doubling Back Friday 20th 4.30pm-5.30pm | £10.00 children’s classics and interesting antiquary gems are waiting to 1.15pm to 2.00pm | Free 10.00am–11.00am | £7.50 Kirsty Wark be enjoyed – and not just by train travellers! The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle Love Poetry Please Ruary Mackenzie Dodds Dragonfly Diaries 7.30pm-9.00pm | £14.50 3.00pm-4.00pm | £10.00 Transaction Fees apply to advertised ticket prices. If paying by card, the Transaction Fee is 25p for 11.30am-12.30pm | £7.50 James Naughtie Mark Beaumont The Madness of July Debit Cards and £1.50 for Credit Cards. If booking via our website, the Transaction Fee is £1.50. There is The Adventurer Returns Iain Macwhirter no Transaction Fee for paying with cash at the Box Office. Disunited Kingdom 9.30pm-10.30pm | Free 4.30pm-5.30pm | £7.50 Fearie Tales Please note: Event and ticketing information is correct at time of going to print. Changes in the Alan Rowan 11.15am–12.45pm | £12.50 programme of events may alter, so please do check online or at the Box Office. We reserve the right to Adventures of a Midnight Cynthia Rogerson make changes to the programme, ticket prices and seating plans. Mountaineer Workshop: The Art of Short Story Writing 02 01796 484626 • PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com 03 Local author Polly is a brilliant In addition to the big set pieces Friday 13th story teller and speaker, she from the Bruce story, not least returns to Winter Words with of course, the bloody Battle 10.00am-11.00am this new biography, ready to of Bannockburn, James will be captivate her audience! talking about his exciting re- Roger telling of Bruce and the spider, See page 24 for full lunch the murder of Red Comyn and Hutchinson menu details. St Kilda: Bruce’s seizing of the Scottish throne. A People’s History 3.00pm-4.00pm £7.50 James, whose novels include And The Land Lay Still, The Award- James Testament of Gideon Mack winning Robertson (long-listed for the Man Booker journalist prize, 2006) and his most recent and author, & Jill Calder work, The Professor of Truth Roger Roger Hutchinson Robert the Bruce: (2013) makes a welcome return Hutchinson, King of Scots to Winter Words, joined by Jill kicks off Catriona will be joined by £8.50 Calder, who has been working Winter 11.30am-12.30pm 1.00pm–2.15pm Dr. Patricia Andrew, to discuss as an illustrator since 1993. She Words in James Robertson, one of her latest book, A Chasm in LITERARY LUNCH is also a calligrapher, digital style with a fascinating talk Catriona Scotland’s most significant Time: Scottish War Art and artist and lecturer with a love about his latest book, The modern writers, gives a fresh Artists in the 20th Century. Polly Pullar of drawing, ideas, colour, ink, People of St Kilda. Roger has Macdonald and vital perspective to the The first collection of its kind, The Isle of Muck typography, book-binding dug deep in to the archives most dramatic historical tales & Dr. Patricia it features over 200 stunning includes a 2 course and sketchbooks. The duo will and his 40 years of Hebridean £23.50 | of one of Scotland’s great works of art – many of which lunch and a glass of wine discuss the structure of the knowledge to paint a picture of Andrew heroes. Robert The Bruce: King have never been reproduced book, development process and the population of the St Kildans Scotland at War – A Drop in the Ocean is Polly of Scots is a visually stunning before. the complicated interaction from the Stone Age to the 20th latest biography book, with James’ words Art and Heart Pullar’s between words and images – century.