BIG LIT tickets go on sale from Monday April 1st

BIG LIT, the Stewartry Book Festival, takes place this year from 1st to 5th May, with five bumper days of poetry, launches, prose, talks, film, puppets, history, workshop, buskers, song, installation, exhibition, politics, music and cabaret. There's also a children’s programme of magical time travel and folk tales.

Among this year's guests are:

• Ted Powell, on Edward VIII’s love affair with America,
• Henry Bell, on John Mclean, Hero of Red Clydeside
• Rosemary Goring, on Scotland's history by the women who lived it
• Alan Taylor on his friendship with Muriel Spark
• BBC Health Editor Hugh Pym on the Scots in Great War London
• Internationally acclaimed harper Wendy Stewart, on the history of the Scottish clarsach

and many, many more.

Events will be held in Gatehouse of Fleet and Kirkcudbright.

Full programme details available online.

Contact Big Lit for tickets or call Galloway Lodge on 01557 814001, open daily  from 10am to 5pm.