Writers & Speakers
- Susie Alexander
- Fiona Allardyce
- Liz Ashworth
- Meg Bateman and Angus Peter Campbell
- A Bit of a Blether – Part Two
- Professor Stephen Blackmore
- Tim Bowler Workshop: How to write for teenagers
- Christopher Brookmyre
- Angus Peter Campbell & Meg Bateman
- Eileen Carney Hulme and Donald MacArthur Ker
- Cawdor Castle Gardens tour
- Brian Denoon
- Carol Ann Duffy
- Michel Faber
- Gardeners’ Question Time
- Roderick Graham
- Katie Hickman
- Tim Honnor
- Stuart Kelly
- A L Kennedy
- Peter Kerr
- John Lister-Kaye
- Fred MacAulay
- Lorn Macintyre
- Ishbel Matheson
- Denise Mina and Allan Guthrie
- Allan Guthrie & Denise Mina
- Mishmash
- Alistair Moffat
- Richard Moore
- Andrew O’Hagan
- Philip Paris
- Donald Paterson
- The Pen and I: Readings
- Barry Pilton
- Dr Tony Pollard
- Patrick Richardson
- James Ross is - going rouge!
- David St John Thomas
- Salley Vickers
- Esther Woolfson
Barry Pilton
4.30pm Wednesday 9 June 2010
Nairn Community Centre
Barry Pilton moans entertainingly about the dilemmas of writing a rural comedy. What is one to do when the source material is too bizarre, the events too far-fetched , and the personalities too eccentric for words? Barry explains how the truth must be creatively mangled lest the author be thought mad. A travel writer, radio and tv script writer (his credits include Not the Nine O’Clock News, Week Ending and Spitting Image) he has written some hilarious novels, including his most recent, Land of my Neighbours – ‘a beguiling, tragic-comic tale of conservation, covetousness and croquet’.
