Author Events

For details of author events and signings please see below

SPRING/SUMMER 2024

All My Wild Mothers will be travelling to some really lovely places in 2024 ... more dates coming soon!


13th March -- ORKNEY ARTS SOCIETY, Stromness Town Hall. 7.30pm

24th March -- READING MINDS - HELENSBURGH BOOK FESTIVAL, Jean's Bothy 11am SOLD OUT

27 - 28th April -- COLONSAY BOOK FESTIVAL, Colonsay

30th April - WARWICK BOOKS, Warwick - 6.30pm

1st May  -- The Barn @ KIBWORTH BOOKS, Kibworth - 7pm

29 Aug - 1st Sept -- ISLAY BOOK FESTIVAL, Islay



AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS 2023


Women's Radio Station - Bookclub guest interview

BBC Radio Cumbria - 3 part broadcast interview for Grief Awareness

BBC Radio West Midlands - Sunday Bookclub 

Wild Women Writers' Salons (online)

Your Wild & Precious Life - online memoir course Criptic Arts

Scottish Libraries Week, Kirkwall Library, Orkney - 6.30pm

OMC Bookclub online, 7 - 9pm


ORKNEY TO OKEHAMPTON  - Summer Readings Tour 


Borders Book Festival

Lighthouse Bookshop, Edinburgh

Waterstones, Kendal

Westwood Books, Sedbergh

Dogberry & Finch Bookshop, Okehampton

Verey Books, Pooley Bridge


MOTHER'S DAY BOOKSHOP TOUR - Spring 2023


The Orcadian Bookshop, Kirkwall

Golden Hare Bookshop, Edinburgh

Rare Birds Bookshop, Edinburgh

Lighthouse Bookshop, Edinburgh

Portobello Bookshop, Edinburgh

Far From The Madding Crowd Bookshop, Edinburgh

Waterstones, Carlisle

Hedgehog Bookshop, Penrith

Verey Bookshop, Pooley Bridge

Westwood Books, Sedbergh

Waterstones, Kendal

Sam Read, Grasmere

WILD BONES
live event with Kerri ni Dochartaigh (recording) - Lighthouse Books, Edinburgh

Online Book Launch - recording

Victoria Bennett
in conversation with Catherine Simpson

Hosted by
Sam Read Bookseller
4th February 2023

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