McLellan Book Festival: Book Festival Finale

Welcome to the McLellan Book Festival 2026 - running alongside the McLellan Arts Festival.Short Stories and Music with Brean Hammond, John Inglis, Tim Pomeroy and Keith Robertson.Brean Hammond: Scriptwriter and NarratorBrean Hammond is Emeritus Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of many books and articles on literary history from Shakespeare to Byron. He is best-known in Shakespearean circles for his publication of the lost Shakespeare play Double Falsehood in the Arden Shakespeare series (2010).He also writes prose fiction and theatre pieces. His play Ben and Jamie was performed in St. Andrews Byre Theatre in 2016. His music-theatre playMaster Byrdhas been widely performed in England and overseas in venues including St. Wulframs Grantham, Southwell Minster, Ely and Chelmsford Cathedrals and Trinity College, Cambridge. It will be performed in 2026 at the Stour Festival by the Renaissance Singers with Vincent Franklin playing Byrd, and at the Guernsey Music Festival by Stile Antico with Brean Hammond in the role of Byrd.To learn more about Master Byrd, please visit: https://www.renaissancesingers.com/writing-master-byrdCurrently he is writing a narrative about Ralph Vaughan Williams, a novel about the coming of a solar farm to a village community and a series of short stories about growing up in Edinburgh.John InglisJohn Inglis has lived on Arran for 27 years after a career as an art teacher. He has published a novella, Finvola about a woman living in the Highlands in the sixteenth century at a time of clan wars in Ireland. It is on sale in Corrie bookshop.His series of twelve vernacular Post War Tales are written phonetically and intended to be read aloud. They are written as though through the eyes of children but meant for adults. The language is the west of Scotland, working class vernacular. Hopefully they recreate the attitudes and concerns of a bygone age including the joys, suffering and poverty a few years after the end of the second world war. Football, steam railways, the end of rationing and the horror of primary school all seen through the anxiety and humour of children.Also follow us on theMcLellan Book Festival facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61555662311463] here for regular updates.Pricing
Admission price is 10 per session but a Festival Ticket is 50. This covers entrance to all Book Festival events from Friday 4th - Sunday 6th September. More info and buy aFestival Ticket here [https://www.ticketsource.com/arran-theatre-and-arts-trust/t-aaardzg].Entrance free to under 18s and those in full time education.More info about the McLellan Arts Festival is available here [https://www.arrantheatreandarts.co.uk/mclellan-festival].