Wild Writers Festival

Climbing mountains with two superstar labradors, walking a lump of Orcadian stone 500 miles across Southern Norway, creating gourmet meals to be cooked on mountain summits, and relating the literary heritage created by generations of women walkers from the 18th Century to present day.

These are just four of the feature events making up this year’s Wild Writers Festival at the Eastgate Theatre, Peebles (Friday 26 to Saturday 27 January). The festival is a celebration of outstanding writing about the living world and our place within it – from nature writing and adventure travel to ecology, memoir and the simple joy of time spent in wild places.