Sunday 9th October
4.30pm-5.30pm
St Margaret’s
Tickets: £10

Kate Mosse is the author of nine novels & short story collections, including the No 1 bestselling The Burning Chambers Series – The Burning Chambers and The City of Tears – as well as the multimillion selling Languedoc Trilogy - Labyrinth, Sepulchre and Citadel - and No 1 bestselling Gothic fiction including The Winter Ghosts and The Taxidermist's Daughter.

In addition to her dazzling literary career, Kate is also a leading advocate for women's creativity, founding the Women's Prize for Fiction - the largest annual celebration of women's writing in the world and also the global campaign - #WomanInHistory – which launched in January 2021 to honour, celebrate and promote women’s achievements throughout history and from every part of the world.

Join us for a fascinating glimpse into the life and work of this extraordinary writer.

Sunday 9th October
2.30pm-3.30pm
St Margaret’s
Tickets: £10

Justine Picardie is the author of six books, including her critically acclaimed memoir, If the Spirit Moves You: Life and Love After Death, and the international bestseller, Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life. Her most recent book, Miss Dior, charts the extraordinary life of Catherine Dior, sister of the legendary fashion designer Christian Dior.

This in-conversation event will explore Justine’s process in the writing of Miss Dior and the wider significance of the biography as an ever popular literary form.

Sunday 9th October

1pm-2pm

Braemar Village Hall

Two of Scotland’s most exciting poets and writers come together to perform readings of their powerful and engaging works in the intimate setting of Braemar Village Hall. Jackie and Hannah have both held the prestigious role of Makar – Jackie being Scotland’s national Makar (2016 -2021) and Hannah recently being appointed as the City of Edinburgh’s Makar (2021) – with their works having been widely published and performed on both stage and screen.

Sunday 9th October
11.30am – 12.30pm
St Margaret’s
Tickets: £10

Join highly respected publisher Stephen Page (Executive Chair of Faber & Faber) for what promises to be a fascinating discussion on the surprisingly good news story of rebellious readers, brilliant booksellers, what’s good about the digital age for literature, and what might happen next.

Sunday 9th October
10am – 11am
The Fife Arms
Tickets: £10

Clinical psychologist and novelist Dr. Frank Tallis in conversation with Genevieve Gaunt on the history of lovesickness, case studies of longing and desire, and what the great psychologists can teach us about surviving discontent in the modern world.

Saturday 8th October
4.30pm – 5.30pm
St Margaret’s
Tickets: £10

Ian Rankin is one of the UK’s leading authors, multi-million copy worldwide bestseller of over thirty novels and creator of John Rebus. His books have been translated into thirty-six languages and have been adapted for radio, the stage and the screen.

In this in-conversation event Ian Rankin will discuss his incredible literary career and his latest, much anticipated book A Heart Full of Headstones.

The talk will be followed by a book signing.

Saturday 8th October
3pm-4pm
Braemar Village Hall
Tickets: £10

One of the UK’s most highly regarded whisky experts, and curator of Bertie’s Whisky Bar at the Fife Arms, Dave Broom will discuss his new book, which takes a magical look at this most Scottish of drinks from the perspective of the land, weather, traditional crafts and culture which form its making. Dave will also share some of the stunning landscape photography that features throughout the book.

Saturday 8th October
1.30pm-2.30pm
St Margaret’s
Tickets: £10

Best-selling novelist, journalist and broadcaster Sebastian Faulks will share stories of his fascinating literary career and discuss the success of some of his best known works, ranging from historical novels such as Birdsong to his powerful new publication Snow Country. An in-conversation event not to be missed.

Saturday 8th October
11am - 12 noon
Braemar Village Hall
Tickets: £10

Join food writer and critic Tom Parker Bowles as he explores the enduring phenomenon of the cookbook and its contribution to contemporary culture with two of the country’s best-known and well-loved chefs, Angela Hartnett OBE and Jeremy Lee.

The talk will be followed by a book signing.

Friday 7th October
2pm-3pm
Braemar Village Hall
Admission: Free

Braemarnia began its life at the 2018 Braemar Creative Arts Festival, when the writer-in-residence, Rachel Marsh, asked the impossible, ‘Tell me a story’. Rachel then spent a year returning back and forth to the village to collect tales from local residents to weave the story of Braemar.

As this unique community project nears its end, join us to discover more about this incredible journey from oral fact to prose fiction. Writer Rachel Marsh and Marilyn Baker, Director of the Braemar Creative Arts Festival and voice of Braemarnia, will be in conversation to highlight the ups and downs of writing a community novel, and to share a short film on the project and read excerpts from the final book.

Community book launch in Braemar Village Hall.

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Gillian Shearer is a writer and poet based in the North East of Scotland. She writes in both English and Scots. She initially trained as a nurse and worked in the NHS for several years before studying English Literature at Aberdeen University as a mature student. She then went on to complete a PGDE in Secondary education and an MLitt in Creative Writing. Her work has appeared in Southlight, Causeway/Cabhsair, Lallans and Northwords Now.

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Multi award winning whisky expert Dave Broom has written a dozen books, was the 2013 IWSC Communicator of the Year, is a Master of the Quaich and a Kentucky Colonel.

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Sir Ian James Rankin OBE DL FRSE FRSL FRIAS[2] (born 28 April 1960) is a Scottish crime writer, best known for his Inspector Rebus novels.

Jacqueline Margaret Kay, CBE, FRSE, FRSL (born 9 November 1961), is a Scottish poet, playwright, and novelist, known for her works Other Lovers (1993), Trumpet (1998) and Red Dust Road (2011).

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Thomas Henry Charles Parker Bowles is a British food writer and food critic. Parker Bowles is the author of seven cookbooks and, in 2010, won the Guild of Food Writers 2010 award for his writings on British food. He is known for his appearances as a judge in numerous television food series and for his reviews of restaurant meals around the UK and overseas for GQ,Esquire, and The Mail on Sunday.

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Poem and a Pint pop up in the Flying Stag Bar.

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Hauser & Wirth’s publishing activity extends back to 1992, from where it steadily flourished through partnerships with reputable imprints such as Hatje Cantz, JRP|Ringier, Snoeck, Steidl, Thames & Hudson, and Yale University Press, before publishing independently under its own imprint. Based in Zurich and New York City, Hauser & Wirth Publishers commissions titles that we believe are keystone resources and references related to the artists represented by the gallery. Our titles are distributed worldwide via Distributed Art Publishers and Buchhandlung Walther König

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