Read all about it: Kate Adie and Iain Banks headline Nairn book festival

VETERAN journalist Kate Adie and Scots author Iain Banks are to headline the Nairn Book and Arts Festival.

The official line-up to the popular event, which runs between 4-9 September, was announced yesterday and also includes aristocrat chef Lady Clair MacDonald.

Elizabeth Findlay, chair of the Nairn Book and Arts Festival committee, said: “This year’s Festival programme is growing more ambitious, both in scale and number of events, and in the quality of the writers and artists we attract.

“The fact that authors of the stature of Iain Banks and Kate Adie and well known personalities such as Lady Claire Macdonald and Dr Phil Hammond are coming to Nairn this year will I hope help to make it our busiest Festival yet, attracting audiences of all ages from across the country.

Nairn provost Liz Macdonald added: “I would like to congratulate the committee and membership of Nairn Book and Arts Festival for delivering such an exciting and interesting programme of writers and artists coming to our town.

“I look forward to attending some of the events and I know folk from Nairn and tourists will enjoy the activities taking place.”