We’re delighted to reveal the programme for the eighth Bute Noir crime writing
festival and welcome you all to a bit of fictional slaughter doon the water.
We’ve got a fabulous lineup of authors including Val McDermid, Paula Hawkins,
Chris Hammer, Abigail Dean, T.M. Logan and J.D. Kirk as well as favourites such
as Chris Brookmyre, Denise Mina, Alex Gray and Mark Billingham.
The 2025 programme breaks new ground by bringing you two crime writers from
China. It’s very rare for authors from that country to appear at UK festivals so we’re
particularly excited to welcome Cai Jun and Na Duo.
It’s a very international year as we will also have authors travelling to Bute from
New Zealand, France, Italy and Northern Ireland, where they will join writers from
Scotland, England, Australia, Denmark and the USA on the Glenburn stage.
We are delighted to welcome back the fabulous Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers who will
rock us on Saturday night. There is a true crime event again, this time featuring
Gina McGavin’s story of how she teamed up with journalist Jane Hamilton to find
the truth about her mother’s 35-year-old unsolved murder.
Individual ticket prices for 2025 remain the same as last year, priced at £7. We’ve
sneaked an extra event onto the Saturday schedule, so weekend passes are £95
compared to last year’s £90, but represent even better value, saving £25 compared
to buying individually.
As ever, huge thanks to our sponsors – For Bute, Creative Scotland, Careplus and
Martha Shaw – and to our volunteers, readers and authors.
See you all in August!
Craig, Karen, Anne & Alison
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This was the first book festival we have ever attended and found it very interesting and entertaining. We hope it was a great success for the organisers as its obvious there was a lot of work gone into the event.
This sounds interesting to us as we will be visiting Bute this weekend. I am a little confused by the prices though. It says individual ticket prices are £7 but a weekend pass is £95, The event is on for three days so surely you would be better paying £7 per day making a total of £21 or am I mis reading this?
Never been to a book festival before so really looking forward to this.
Absolutely gutted, we've just left Byte and would have stayed to attend this if we'd known earlier. Is this an annual event? If so we'll see you next year