The programme for the third Lennoxlove Book Festival is a cracker, the best yet, and literary rockets will flash across the dark November sky for three glorious nights, lighting imaginations and sparking wonderful talk to make glowing memories.

Audiences at Lennoxlove will remember, remember the 5th of November, and the 4th, and the 6th. History, biography, politics, fiction and fun will visit what is surely one of Scotland’s warmest and most atmospheric great houses. Thanks to the Hamilton and Kinneil Estates for allowing the festival a unique and splendid setting. McInroy & Wood is a locally based and internationally renowned company. Their sponsorship and the generous help of East Lothian Council make the programme you are holding possible. Knight Frank is a steadfast supporter of the Family Book Festival and we welcome East Lothian’s own university at Queen Margaret as a new sponsor. The wonderful authors who populate the programme give their time freely and come to Lennoxlove for the love of it. Thanks to all of them and our imaginative and kind sponsors and advertisers. But none of what we and they do would mean very much without you, our readers and audiences. This is your party. Please come and enjoy the fireworks.

Alistair Moffat

Festival Director