Author Chris Brookmyre delighted with warm welcome at John O’Groats Book Festival
Award-winning crime writer Chris Brookmyre has praised the warm welcome he received at the first John O’Groats Book Festival.
Glasgow-born Brookmyre, the author of 18 published novels, gave a talk to an audience of almost 100 at the Seaview Hotel today on the subject of “Murders, Mysteries and Other Dark Places”.
It was part of a busy weekend of festival events at various John O’Groats venues.
Afterwards he said: “Inaugural festivals are always something you approach with some trepidation, but from the minute I got here it has been such a warm welcome and such a beautiful setting.
“The audiences have been large and enthusiastic and very warm, very responsive, and they’ve made me feel very welcome. I will be speaking warmly of the festival when I go back south.”
It was Brookmyre’s first visit to John O’Groats and earlier in the day he had taken a walk along the coast to the Stacks of Duncansby. Clearly impressed with the scenery, he revealed: “I don’t think I’ve ever taken so many photographs of one place in my life!”
Brookmyre’s books include Where the Bodies Are Buried, Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks, Dead Girl Walking, Black Widow, Bedlam, Places in the Darkness and Want You Gone.
See Wednesday’s Caithness Courier for coverage of the John O’Groats Book Festival.