Bookface Sip & Swap with Billy Sloan on Saturday 29th November

This event promises to be a literary extravaganza that book lovers won't want to miss. Enjoy coffee, croissants and fizz and take part in our sustainable book swap and choose from 300 titles. Plus you'll receive a copy of Billy's memoir One Love One Life.

You're welcome to bring up to 4 books with you to participate in our book swap. They can be of any genre and should be in good condition.

We have hundreds to choose from, so don't worry if you're not bringing some, you are still welcome to join the book swap which happens after the 45 min q+a with our guest author.

Billy Sloan’s little black book is a who’s who of the music industry over the last five decades. After a working life spent as a music journalist on two of Scotland’s biggest papers, the Daily Record and the Sunday Mail, and with his own BBC Radio Scotland Saturday night show still on air each week -- as well as by-lines in The Sunday Times, Daily Express, Sunday Post and Glasgow Herald, to name but a few – Billy Sloan knows a thing or two about getting access to the stars.

Having started out in 1979 with a ground-breaking Radio Clyde show that gave many soon-to-be-stars, from Billy’s native Scotland and beyond, their first play on air, Billy went on to be the Music Correspondent for STV and produced their coverage of T in the Park as well as Scotland Today.

As a music biographer, Billy’s CV includes projects with Simple Minds, Cliff Richard, Wet Wet Wet, Hue and Cry and The Associates, and the endorsements for One Love, One Life are testament to the personal relationships he has built up with so many giants of the music industry: Rod Stewart, Fran Healy, The Proclaimers, Simple Minds, Midge Ure, Paul Buchanan (the Blue Nile) – and even Bono.

Bookface is the online book group with 5300 members in 48 countries.

It started in 2020 and was founded by avid reader and broadcaster, Heather Suttie. Each month scores of book lovers from all over the UK flock to Glasgow for these events which celebrate a love of reading and a guest author q+a with some of the finest authors of the moment.

The monthly sold-out Bookface events are an opportunity for budding authors and avid readers to pick the brains of successful authors and enjoy an uplifting afternoon with people who love great books.

Billy Sloan join an impressive list of authors who’ve attended the sold out Bookface events in Glasgow. Lisa Jewell, Claire Douglas, Davinia Taylor, Alan Parks, Nikki May, Alan Parks, Susannah Constantine, John Niven, Sam Baker, Doug Allan OBE, Helen Fitzgerald, Paul English and Sophie Gravia are just some of the celebrated names who’ve taken part.

Participants are encouraged to bring four books to participate in the sustainable book swap where there are 400 titles to choose from. This is not necessary as we understand many people prefer Kindle or audio formats.

I f you'd like to join Bookface, the online private group with 5200 members in 48 countries, please search Bookface by Heather Suttie on Facebook or click on this link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Bookface2020/

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Glaschu Restaurant & Bar, 32 Royal Exchange Square, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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