Aye Write! Welcome to the third Aye Write! Bank of Scotland Book Festival, taking place at The Mitchell Library. We're now fully established as an annual event, thanks to the support of Bank of Scotland

Once again we have some fantastic authors and debates. Authors include Kathleen Turner, Tony Parsons, George Monbiot, Asne Siersted, Louis de Bernieres, Hanif Kureishi, Johnnie Walker, Joanne Harris, Iain Banks, Val McDermid, Denise Mina, Will Self, Tony Benn, Martin Bell, Helena Kennedy, and Blake Morrison.

FRIDAY 7th MARCH

• Liberties, Crime & Punishment Watch the Video Read the Herald Review
  With Dame Helena Kennedy, A C Grayling and Clive Stafford Smith
  Dame Helena Kennedy is one of Britain's leading barristers and has worked on many terrorist cases. A C Grayling is the author of many best-selling guides to philosophy. Clive Stafford Smith is legal director of Reprieve.

• Hanif Kureishi on Something to Tell You (7.30pm – 8.30pm)Watch the Video
  interviewed by Rodge Glass
  Hanif Kureishi is one of Britain's leading writers with work ranging from My Beautiful Laundrette and The Buddha of Suburbia.

SATURDAY 8th MARCH

• The Dear Green Place: a Tribute to Archie Hind with Alasdair Gray (5pm)Watch the Video
  Archie Hind’s The Dear Green Place is one of the best books ever written about Glasgow. First published in 1966, and in print ever since, the story of Mat Craig and his struggle to write make it a modern classic.

SUNDAY 9th MARCH

• Gerry Anderson Watch the Video
  The great television and film producer, director and writer, Gerry Anderson famous for his futuristic television programmes, comes to Glasgow. There’ll be many clips from Thunderbirds, Fireball XL5, Captain Scarlet, Joe 90, Space 1999.

• Iain M Banks and Ken McLeod (6pm)Watch the Video
  Two of Scotland’s leading writers discuss their new books. Iain M Banks’ Matter, the story of a crime within a war which means for one man a desperate flight and a search for the people who can clear his name. Ken MacLeod’s The Execution Channel, fighting has spread across the Middle East and Central Asia to the borders of China.

MONDAY 10 MARCH

• Kathleen Turner Watch the Video Read the Herald Review
  Strong, feisty, brave and brilliant, Kathleen Turner is a woman to be reckoned with. One of the most revered actresses of her generation, she reveals her astonishing trajectory from struggling New York actress to household name – a result of passionate ambition, powerful instinct and unwavering self–belief.

• Tony Parsons on his new novel My Favourite Wife (6.00pm - 7.00pm)
  Mega selling novelist Tony Parsons follows Man and Boy and Man and Wife, among others, with My Favourite Wife, a sizzling Shanghai tale of sex, romantic struggles and second wives.

TUESDAY 11th MARCH

• Paddy Ashdown and David Stafford on how wars end(6pm – 7pm)
  Few would doubt that the Iraq war is failing with weak war aims and no plan for the end of conflict. Paddy Ashdown joins David Stafford to discuss how previous wars have ended better than the Iraq disaster and how to make sure that future conflicts do not turn into long-term entanglements.

WEDNESDAY 12th MARCH

• Val McDermid and Denise Mina (7.30pm – 8.30pm)Watch the Video
  Two great women crime writers talk about their new work. In Val McDermid’s Beneath the Bleeding – another outing for forensic profiler Tony Hill. There are terrorism fears too in Denise Mina’s new book, The Last Breath, the third in the Paddy Meehan series.

• Blake Morrison (7.30pm – 8.30pm) Watch the Video
  Blake Morrison’s state of the nation masterpiece, South of the River, is the big British novel of our times. Starting with Blair’s victory in 2007, it covers five years in the lives of a dysfunctional but connected group of characters.

THURSDAY 13th MARCH

• Judith Bowers on the Britannia Panopticon (7.30pm – 8.40pm) Watch Preview
  On first encountering the old Glasgow music hall, the Britannia Panopticon, local historian Judith Bowers was smitten. Stan Laurel made his debut there. There were burlesque shows, risqué performers, films, carnivals, wax works, animals and freak shows.

FRIDAY 14th MARCH

• Menzies Campbell (7.30pm – 8.30pm) Watch the Video
  Glaswegian educated Menzies Campbell went on to achieve athletics fame in the 1964 Olympics and the 1966 Commonwealth Games. He talks, with the Herald’s Ruth Wishart about his autobiography, which, knowing the man, promises to be very different to other politicians’ work.

SATURDAY 15th MARCH

• Quintin Jardine Stuart MacBride and Allan Guthrie (1pm – 2.30pm)
  Three of Scotland‘s hardest and most popular crime writers spend 90 minutes on their work. Quintin Jardine is author of two much-acclaimed and best–selling series of detective novels. He is joined by Stuart MacBride, author of Dying Light, Cold Planet and Broken Skin and Allan Guthrie author of four novels, including Two–Way Split.

• Aye Write! Awards event (8pm – 9pm) Watch the Video
  As the culmination of the festival, Aye Write!announces the winners of its new prizes. The Sceptre Prize, awarded to a student at the Edwin Morgan Centre for Creative Writing at Glasgow University, is £1,500 and the winner will be considered for publication by Sceptre.