Booked! West Dunbartonshire’s
Festival of Words 7 - 20 May 2016 A vibrant and diverse festival of talks and events by leading authors organised by your local library service.
Week 1
7 - 13 May 2016
Week 2
14 - 20 May 2016
Remembering the Clydebank Blitz
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Welcome to Booked! West Dunbartonshire’s Festival of Words Welcome to Booked! West Dunbartonshire’s annual Festival of Words. It is my privilege to introduce this year’s Booked! literary festival, brought to you by West Dunbartonshire Council’s Libraries and Cultural Services with sponsorship from Creative Scotland. We always strive to outdo our efforts year on year, and we have every expectation that this year’s line-up will provide an amazing range of entertainment and thought provoking performances for your enjoyment. The reading-themed programme will be spread across West Dunbartonshire, as for the first year each of our eight libraries will play host to at least one event. We are also excited to introduce a new cabaret-style evening at Clydebank Town Hall. This year’s festival also coincides with the 75th anniversary of the Clydebank Blitz and as a mark of respect several events will be themed on this milestone. Booked! 2016 boasts a wide range of journalists, fiction and factual authors, poets and musicians, with something to appeal to everyone. We kick off events with a sprinkle of Govan stardust from Gregor ‘Rab C. Nesbitt’ Fisher and his biographer Melanie Reid in conversation about his extraordinary upbringing and subsequent career. This year’s Alastair Person Lecture at Gartocharn will be delivered by journalist, Erwin James, who having served 20 years of a life sentence is now an advocate of prison reform. Next Claire McGowan, an up and coming crime fiction writer deemed ‘Ireland’s answer to Ruth Rendell’, will speak about her Paula Maguire series of novels – currently tipped for a TV drama adaptation. Fellow Irish author Neil Mackay is a multi-award winning investigative journalist, newspaper executive, non-fiction author, radio broadcaster and film-maker who will speak about his latest novel, The Wolf Trial, a historical crime story intriguingly described by his publisher as a cross between The Name of the Rose and American Psycho. If non-fiction is your preference we can thoroughly recommend Amy Liptrott’s memoir The Outrun, a remarkably honest and revealing account of a return to her home on Orkney to find solace in nature after struggling with alcohol addiction. Meanwhile Brooke Magnanti – author of the blog Belle de Jour - subsequently adapted for television as The Secret Diary of a Call Girl starring Billie Piper – will be introducing her new crime thriller The Turning Tide. Dramatist and screenwriter Des Dillon, best known for his play Singin I’m No a Billy He’s a Tim, will meet up with Dalmuir Library’s
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resident Reading Champion, poet Donny O’Rourke, for a Saturday afternoon conversation event. Fellow poet Rachel McCrum will return to Clydebank Town Hall following a very well-received performance in West Dunbartonshire during Book Week Scotland. This time she will be joined by singer-turned-poet Jenny Lindsay and a variety of special guests to present Rally & Broad – a cabaret-style evening of poetry, music and spoken word. One of the worst offshore disasters in UK history will be examined by Aberdonian ex-pat Iain Maloney, whose book The Waves Burn Bright explores the impact of the Piper Alpha oil rig disaster on a family. Musical entertainment will also form a key part of this year’s programme, with an evening of songs, tales and laughter from Scottish folk legend Jimmie Macgregor to be enjoyed at Gartocharn. Sports journalist Hugh Keevins from Radio Clyde will also be returning to his roots in Faifley to talk about the text message from Gordon Strachan he keeps on his phone and just what it’s like to be on the receiving end of one of Sir Alex Ferguson’s ‘hairdryer’ treatments. And we’ll finally round off the festival with comedian Rhona Cameron talking about her autobiography Nineteen Seventy-Nine: A Big Year in a Small Town, which charts the trials and tribulations of coming to terms with her sexuality whilst growing up in Musselburgh.
Gill Graham Manager Libraries and Cultural Services
We are delighted to be able to present such a varied and stimulating programme for Booked! 2016, and I sincerely hope you are as excited as we are to welcome such fantastic writers and performers to West Dunbartonshire.
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Saturday 7 May Dalmuir Library at 7.30pm
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Gregor Fisher and Melanie Reid
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Gregor Fisher is one of Scotland’s most loved actors. He rose to fame playing the infamous Rab C. Nesbitt, the Govan street philosopher. His memoir, The Boy from Nowhere, jointly written with the renowned journalist Melanie Reid explores his complex family history. At the age of 14 Gregor asked where he was christened and was informed that he had been adopted. The truth was actually far more complex than that and through the years Gregor was given a version of events that involved some truths, half-truths and polite cover-ups.
the Booked! festival events - they are so interesting.
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The maximum number of participants for this event is 10further people. For information about The Artist Rooms at Clydebank Museum
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Festival has been organised by very friendly, helpful and competent staff. Great atmosphere and great speakers.
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In 2014 Gregor sought the help of Times columnist Melanie Reid to help him tell his story. Their exploration of his birth and early years disclosed a tale of secrets, tragic accidents and early death. He may have been rejected by some of his own family but he would find a welcome from where he would least expect it. Join Gregor and Melanie for an extraordinary family history told with warmth and humour.
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Monday 9 May Millennium Hall Gartocharn at 7.30 pm
Alastair Pearson Lecture – Erwin James This year’s Alastair Pearson Lecture is delivered by Erwin James, regular columnist for The Guardian and a leading voice for prison reform and rehabilitation. He had a troubled start to life, losing his mother when he was seven and then being shipped from home to home. His father turned to alcohol and violence and Erwin committed his first crime of breaking and entering when he was ten. His life continued its downward trajectory through his teenage and early adult years and as his criminal behaviour became increasingly violent he committed the terrible act which resulted in a life sentence. It was through meeting Joan Branton, a prison psychologist, that Erwin’s life was transformed. Through her influence he was encouraged to read and to educate himself, and over the next 20 years Erwin James would go on to receive a BA in History, and become a regular columnist for The Guardian. He has written Redeemable: A Memoir of Darkness and Hope which is devoid of excuses but is full of the need to understand how we become who we are, and shows that no matter how far a person may fall, redemption is possible with the right kind of help.
Erwin James
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Poetry Workshops with Dalmuir Library’s Reading Champion – Donny O’Rourke GUIDE LINES – Monday 9 May at Dalmuir Library from 2pm – 4pm If poems weren’t powerfully persuasive television adverts wouldn’t rhyme. And lots of them do. Poetry is all around us. It’s all ABOUT us. You may not know it but you’re a poet. Greetings cards. Nursery rhymes. Pop songs. Hymns. They helped form us. We are mostly made of water; but we’re also made of words. You don’t understand poetry? Don’t worry, poetry understands you. This relaxed and informal wee workshop is for anyone who wants to get more out of reading and maybe writing. Fun, fulfilment and laughter guaranteed. This workshop is your guide to reading and writing creatively.
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Claire McGowan
Tuesday 10 May Parkhall Library at 7.30pm
Claire McGowan is a rising star in the pantheon of crime fiction. She grew up in Northern Ireland and after completing a degree in English and French at Oxford University she moved to London and worked in the charity sector. She is currently Senior Lecturer in Crime Writing at City University London. She has written The Fall and four novels featuring Paula Maguire, the most recent being A Savage Hunger. Claire’s novels have been highly praised. Peter James described A Savage Hunger as being “Astonishing, powerful and immensely satisfying” and Ken Bruen has said that Claire is “Ireland’s answer to Ruth Rendell”. The Paula Maguire series is under option with the BBC.
Claire McGowan
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Wednesday 11 May Duntocher Library at 7.30pm
Neil Mackay
Neil Mackay is a multi-award winning investigative journalist, newspaper executive, non-fiction author, radio broadcaster and film-maker. He has written The War on Truth, which investigates the roots of the invasion of Iraq. He has also written two highly acclaimed novels, All the Little Guns Went Bang Bang Bang and The Wolf Trial. The latter inspired by an extraordinary true case - the first ever documented account of a serial killer in world history. It has been described by his publisher as being “Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose meets Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho in this brilliant historical epic.”
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Neil Mackay
This is Neil’s second visit to West Dunbartonshire and we are delighted to welcome him back to discuss his fiction writing. www.freightbooks.co.uk/neil-mackay
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Amy Liptrot
Thursday 12 May Alexandria Library at 7.30pm
Amy Liptrot’s memoir The Outrun explores her return to Orkney after more than a decade away. She had experienced the tension between the freedom growing up on a farm in Orkney and the sense of a wider world, with other, more exciting possibilities. Amy had enjoyed alcohol from first experiencing it in her teens and “loved the change in mood and the dulling of inhibitions”, a draw which would deepen as the years progressed. Amy’s return to Orkney after successful completion of an addiction programme began to disclose other sources of stimulation, connection and escape. She developed a strong sense of place and valued the rituals and customs that bound the island community together, as well as becoming immersed in the landscape and wildlife of the Orkneys. The Outrun explores ways in which community and the natural world can heal us. “It’s this aptitude Liptrot has for marrying her inner-space with wild outer-spaces that makes her such a compelling writer – and one to watch.” Will Self, The Guardian
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Amy Liptrot
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I have always enjoyed these events. I think they are well-planned and organised. Great fun too! Many, many thanks.
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Friday 13 May Balloch Library at 7.30pm
Brooke Magnanti
Brooke Magnanti is a research scientist and author. Brooke found fame when she was revealed as being the call girl blogger Belle de Jour, her actual identity being the focus of heated media speculation. She wrote two Belle de Jour memoirs which were adapted for television and starred Billie Piper. She has worked in forensic science, epidemiology, chemoinformatics and cancer research. Brooke currently lives in rural north west Scotland with her husband. The Turning Tide is Brooke’s crime thriller debut “Erykah Macdonald has a life that looks perfect on paper. On her 20th wedding anniversary, she’s about to leave it all behind when her husband tells her something that changes her mind. But she soon learns his surprising news comes with strings attached – and that she may have accidentally uncovered a body count that goes all the way from the Highlands to Westminster”.
Brooke Magnanti
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Des Dillon
Saturday 14 May Dalmuir Library at 2pm
Des Dillon is an extraordinarily versatile writer - he is a dramatist, poet, short story writer, novelist, broadcaster, screen writer and he has written scripts for TV, stage and radio. He has won many awards including the Saltire Society Scottish First Book of the Year Award, Television Arts Performance Showcase Writer of the Year Award, International Festival of Playwriting Award, World Book Day Award and a Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland (Best Ensemble Play). His novel Me and Ma Gal was highly acclaimed and it was included in the list of The 100 Best Scottish Books of All Time. Des also wrote the brilliant satirical play Singin I’m No a Billy He’s a Tim which has been a smash hit in Scottish theatres. This special event will be chaired by our Reading Champion, Donny O’Rourke, and Des will be discussing and reading from his work. www.desdillon.com
Des Dillon
Poetry Workshops with Dalmuir Library’s Reading Champion – Donny O’Rourke LIFE LINES – Monday 16 May at Dalmuir Library from 2pm – 4pm Poetry knows stuff; shows stuff. We can be wounded into words. We can re write the scripts of our lives. Poems can help and heal. In confusing times, poetry makes sense. Writing can be righting, setting things straight. Lines of verse are often guide- lines, bee lines, life lines. What makes a poem ‘good’? How do content, form and style reinforce each other to make writing more intense, revealing, moving and pleasurable? Can creative writing maybe rescue us? This workshop can be enjoyed as a one off, or as the follow up to our ‘Guide Lines’ session – your guide to reading and writing creatively.
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Donny O’Rourke
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Monday 16 May Clydebank Town Hall at 7.30pm
Rally & Broad Cabaret
Rally & Broad Join Rally & Broad, aka poets Jenny Lindsay and Rachel McCrum, for an evening of poetry, storytelling, music, dancing, spraffing, raffling, spikiness and a general aura of chaos and wonder! www.rallyandbroad.com
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Chrissy Barnacle Chrissy Barnacle is a singer-songwriter hailing from the grimy shores of the Clyde whose yearning and often fantastical lyrics are brimming with turmoil and optimism. www.chrissybarnacle.bandcamp.com
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A New International Lush, poetic, bittersweet romanticism; an evocative mixture of cinematic strings, circus lights, carnival and cabaret, music hall, gypsy, chanson, a little bit of folk, a little bit of flamenco, yet with pop at its beating heart - welcome to the world of Glasgow’s finest, A New International. www.anewinternational.com
Martin O’Connor Cabaret event tickets £5 and available from
Martin O’Connor is a playwright, performer and poet from Glasgow, and a Rally & Broad favourite with his witty, tender, breakneck performances.
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A bar is available on the night.
Malachy Tallack Malachy Tallack’s first book, a travelogue and memoir Sixty Degrees North, was published in 2015 and was chosen as a Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4. His second, The Un-Discovered Islands, is due in September 2016. As a singer-songwriter, he has released four albums and performed in venues across the UK. www.malachytallack.com
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Tuesday 17 May Clydebank Library at 7.30 pm
Iain Maloney
Iain Maloney was born in Aberdeen and was first published when he successfully submitted a story for the football anthology The Hope That Kills Us. He studied English at the University of Aberdeen and has a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow. He became a regular contributor to Gutter and his first novel, First Time Solo, was snapped up by Adrian Searle of Freight publishing. It was shortlisted for The Guardian’s Not The Booker prize. Iain now lives in Japan where he teaches English and writes about travel, literature and music. His latest novel The Waves Burn Bright will be published in May 2016 and is an intensely moving portrait of the impact of the Piper Alpha disaster on one fictional family.
Iain Maloney
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The Booked festival is a wee cultural oasis.
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This is the opportunity to hear and meet one of the most talented up and coming Scottish writers. www.iainmaloney.wordpress.com
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Jimmie Macgregor’s Gathering
Wednesday 18 May Millennium Hall Gartocharn at 7.30 pm
Jimmie Macgregor is undoubtedly one of Scotland’s most beloved musicians and broadcasters and we are absolutely delighted that he is part of Booked! 2016. This is a fantastic opportunity to hear him talk about his background, his time at art school, his early involvement with and influence on the folk music revival, skiffle and jazz. It also takes in world tours, television, radio and concert exposure, and meetings with the great and good (and the not so good): John Wayne, Jimmy Shand (yes, Jimmy Shand), James Mason, Joe E. Brown, Tarzan and many more. You can be assured of anecdotes, jokes and songs aplenty. Book quick to avoid disappointment as tickets for this will go fast! www.jimmiemacgregor.com
Jimmie Macgregor
If you would like to find out about groups in your area or want to start one contact Allan Gordon. allan.gordon@west-dunbarton.gov.uk 01389 608978
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Attending this event has motivated me to attend future such events – thoroughly enjoyable.
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Did you know we run a number of reading groups across West Dunbartonshire?
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Thursday 19 May Faifley Library at 7.30pm
Hugh Keevins
Forty-six years on and still not found out! Hugh Keevins wallows in a lifetime spent as a sports journalist, where it’s best to be diligent about your work but not take yourself too seriously, because everyone’s a critic! Hugh started with the The Sunday Post in 1970 and graduated to the The Scotsman a decade later, eventually moving to the The Daily Record and Sunday Mail. For the last 30 years he has presented Radio Clyde’s Superscoreboard. Come along to discover: What’s the text message from Gordon Strachan he keeps in his mobile for posterity? What’s it like getting the ‘Hairdryer’ from Sir Alex Ferguson? And hear more anecdotes about the great and the good, illuminating Hugh’s journey through the decades. Includes a pie and a Bovril for that authentic match day experience! (n.b. veggie option available).
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Hugh Keevins
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Rhona Cameron
Friday 20 May Dumbarton Library at 7.30 pm
Rhona Cameron is one of Scotland’s leading comedians. She first rose to prominence on the stand-up circuit and featured regularly on television. Her appearances include presenting the game show Russian Roulette and Gaytime TV. She starred in her own sitcom, Rhona, and also appeared on the first series of I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here. Rhona was born in Dundee and was adopted; she spent her formative years in Musselburgh. Her autobiography Nineteen Seventy-Nine: A Big Year in a Small Town, charts with enormous warmth, humour and pathos what it was like to be a teenager coming to terms with her sexuality in this small Scottish town, all against the background of her father’s ill health. Join us for an evening in the company of one of our finest comedians – it will be a night to remember.
Rhona Cameron
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I only hope this literary festival continues for years to come. I’ll always want to put this in my diary as there’s so much to learn and so many diverse opinions to share.”
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Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Clydebank Blitz Over two nights of sustained bombardment on the 13th and 14th of March 1941 the former Burgh of Clydebank bore the brunt of the heaviest Luftwaffe bombing suffered by any Scottish town during the Second World War. As part of a wider project to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Clydebank Blitz, Booked! is delighted to include this specially curated series of events in its 2016 programme.
Wednesday 11 May Clydebank Heritage Centre, Clydebank Library at 2pm
Meg Henderson Meg Henderson is an author and journalist originally from Glasgow who, in her fiction, enjoys the challenge of bringing history alive. In her well-loved book The Holy City she does this to poignant effect, reimagining the terrible destruction of the Clydebank Blitz. Meg will be reflecting on the continuing resonance of the story told in The Holy City. Meg is married to a ‘Bankie’ who worked in Browns.
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Friday 13 May Clydebank Heritage Centre, Clydebank Library at 10am
Monday 16 May Clydebank Heritage Centre, Clydebank Library at 2pm
Sue Reid Sexton
Clydebank Life Story Group Collectively, the members of the Clydebank Life Story Group continue to be instrumental in ensuring that the real-life stories of the Clydebank Blitz continue to be told. In this special event for schools, members of the group will discuss with a new generation some of their own stories of survival, whilst celebrating what it is to live in Clydebank today.
A closed event for schools, by invitation only.
Sue Reid Sexton is an author who – when not out on the road in her camper van – is based in Glasgow. Sue will be discussing her hugely popular book Mavis’s Shoe, which tells the story of the Clydebank Blitz throughthe eyes of a child. Sue’s recent involvement in The Blitz Remembered exhibition makes her particularly well placed to reflect on the continuing impact of the Blitz story.
Wednesday 18 May the Garden Gallery, Clydebank Town Hall at 2pm
Tom McKendrick
Born and brought up in post-war Clydebank, the story of the Clydebank Blitz is well-known to artist Tom McKendrick. In a series of powerful artworks, he has explored the Blitz narrative to dramatic effect.
Tom will talk about his artwork, and his new book which reflects on the events of March 1941 from a contemporary perspective. www.tommckendrick.com
Friday 20 May Clydebank Heritage Centre, Clydebank Library at 10am and 2pm
Cathy Forde
A closed event for schools, by invitation only.
In this special event for schools, the Glasgow author Cathy Forde will explore how the Clydebank Blitz inspired her novel for young readers The Blitz Next Door. As the 75th anniversary of the Clydebank Blitz invites reflection, it is apt that Cathy will be sharing her Blitz story with a new generation of readers.
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Do you want to improve your computer skills? Did you know we offer a wide variety of FREE Quest computer courses in library learning centres across West Dumbartonshire? These cater for a range of abilities and interests and include: -
Computers for absolute beginners
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Andriod tablets/iPads for beginners
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Digital cameras - basics
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Set up and use Skype
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Windows 10
Please contact your local library for a full list of courses and for more information about availability.
Do you know West Dunbartonshire Libraries have a Home / Housebound Library Service? The Housebound Library Service is for people who live in West Dunbartonshire who are unable to visit a branch or mobile library owing to age, disability or long term illness which normally confines them to their home. Please email mobile.library@west-dunbarton.gov.uk or telephone 01389 608037 or 01389 608046 for more information.
Would you like to find out about your family’s history? Did you know that Clydebank and Dumbarton Libraries both contain Heritage Centres, where you can access West Dunbartonshire’s extensive local history collections? Our Local History Team regularly runs courses to help you explore your family history. Or, if you’re interested in doing your own research into the local area, visit the Heritage Centres and explore old newspapers, census records, old parish records – including Poor Law records – as well as an extensive collection of historical maps of West Dunbartonshire. For more information, or for any enquiries, contact the Clydebank or Dumbarton Heritage Centres via e-mail: local.history@west-dunbarton.gov.uk
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Booked! Venues Your local libraries:
Alexandria Library
Gilmour Street Alexandria, G83 0DA Tel: 01389 608974 Fax: 01389 710550 Email: alexandria.library@west-dunbarton.gov.uk
Balloch Library
Carrochan Road Balloch, G83 8BW Tel: 01389 608989 Fax: 01389 608995 Email: balloch.library@west-dunbarton.gov.uk
Clydebank Library
Dumbarton Library
Strathleven Place Dumbarton, G82 1BA Tel: 01389 608992 Fax: 01389 608100 Local Studies: 01389 608965 Email: dumbarton.library@west-dunbarton.gov.uk
Duntocher Library
Glenhead C.E. Centre Duntiglennan Road, Duntocher Clydebank G81 6HF Tel and Fax: 0141 562 2469 Email: duntocher.library@west-dunbarton.gov.uk
Dumbarton Road Clydebank, G81 1XH Tel: 0141 562 2440/2436 Fax: 0141 562 2441 Local Studies: 0141 562 2434 Email: clydebank.library@west-dunbarton.gov.uk
Faifley Library
Dalmuir Library
Hawthorn Street Parkhall, Clydebank, G81 3EF Tel and Fax: 0141 562 2467 Email: parkhall.library@west-dunbarton.gov.uk
Lennox Place, Dalmuir, Clydebank, G81 4HR Tel: 0141 562 2425 Fax: 0141 952 6497 Email: dalmuir.library@west-dunbarton.gov.uk
Edinbarnet Campus Craigpark Street, Faifley, Clydebank, G81 5BS Tel: 01389 879528 Email: faifley.library@west-dunbarton.gov.uk
Parkhall Library
Other Venues: Clydebank Town Hall Dumbarton Road Clydebank, Dunbartonshire, G81 1UE Tel:
0141 562 2400
Kilmaronock Millennium Hall Church Rd Gartocharn G83 8NF
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Your Quick Guide to this year’s Booked! Festival WEEK ONE
Time
Event
Venue
Cost
Saturday 7 May
7.30pm
Gregor Fisher and Melanie Reid
Dalmuir Library
free
Monday 9 May
2pm-4pm
Donny O’Rourke
Dalmuir Library
free
Monday 9 May
7.30pm
Erwin James
Millennium Hall, Gartocharn
free
Tuesday 10 May
7.30pm
Claire McGowan
Parkhall Library
free
Wednesday 11 May
2pm
Meg Henderson
Clydebank Library
free
Wednesday 11 May
7.30pm
Neil Mackay
Duntocher Library
free
Thursday 12 May
7.30pm
Amy Liptrot
Alexandria Library
free
Friday 13 May
10am
Clydebank Life Story Group
Clydebank Library
closed
Friday 13 May
7.30pm
Brooke Magnanti
Balloch Library
free
7 - 13 May 2016
Tickets for all events can be booked exclusively using Eventbrite. www.wdcbooked.eventbrite.co.uk Need help booking tickets? Visit your local library and ask a member of staff.
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WEEK TWO
Time
Event
Venue
Cost
Saturday 14 May
2pm
Des Dillon
Dalmuir Library
free
Monday 16 May
2pm
Sue Reid Sexton
Clydebank Library
free
Monday 16 May
2pm-4pm
Donny O’Rourke
Dalmuir Library
free
Monday 16 May
7.30pm
Rally & Broad Cabaret
Clydebank Town Hall
£5
Tuesday 17 May
7.30pm
Iain Maloney
Clydebank Library
free
Wednesday 18 May
2pm
Tom McKendrick
Clydebank Town Hall
free
Wednesday 18 May
7.30pm
Jimmie Macgregor’s Gathering
Millennium Hall, Gartocharn
free
Thursday 19 May
7.30pm
Hugh Keevins
Faifley Library
free
Friday 20 May
10am and 2pm
Cathy Forde
Clydebank Library
closed
Friday 20 May
7.30pm
Rhona Cameron
Dumbarton Library
free
14 - 20 May 2016
The lion symbol of the Booked! Festival is the work of the renowned Scottish author and artist, Alasdair Gray. Our thanks to him.
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