SCOTTISH HOTEL LINES UP WILDLIFE BOOK FESTIVAL ATTRACTION FOR EASTER

The Grant Arms Hotel where Queen Victoria was once a guest 

A SCOTTISH hotel popular with birdwatchers has unveiled the  line-up of speakers for its wildlife book festival at Easter this year.

The event, at the Grant Arms Hotel in Grantown-on-Spey in the Cairngorms, will be hosted by Mark Cocker, author of Birds Britannica.

Among the writers who have agreed to speak are:

 * Patrick Barkham: Islander

 * Andy Swash:  Britain’s Birds (co-author)


           

* Jess French: Tickly Minbeast Adventures 

 * Katrina Van Grouw : Unnatural Selection

 

* Marianne Taylor: The Way of the Hare

Karen Lloyd: The Blackbird Diaries

    

 
 * Kathleen Jamie: Sightlines

* Hugh Warwick: Linescapes

 * Tiffany Francis: Food You Can Forage: Edible Plants to Harvest, Cook and Enjoy

 

* Joe Shute: A Shadow Above: The Fall and Rise of the Raven

* Laurence Rose: The Long Spring: Tracking the Arrival of Spring through Europe

* Louise Gray: The Ethical Carnivore

The event is being held from Thursday  March 29 to Monday  April 2.

Prices for four nights’ dinner, bed and breakfast (plus entry to all talks) are from £479.

More details from the hotel at : 01479 872 526 / 01479 873 589 or info@grantarmshotel.com

The Grant Arms at night