Ullapool Book Festival passes snapped up within hours
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STUNNED organisers of a Wester Ross festival have sold out early bird weekend passes for the event within hours – despite the fact the programme won't be revealed for months.
Ullapool Book Festival will mark its 16th year when the event gets under way in May next year.
The full programme of events planned for the eagerly anticipated festival will be revealed in March with a guest list of some of the authors attending released in January.
Traditionally, book festival organisers offer loyal supporters the chance to snap up cut-price 'early bird' weekend passes in late November up until the end of the year.
A limited number of the £95 briefs went on sale on Monday this week and sold out within hours.
Within 16 hours, more weekend tickets had been sold than had previously sold in a month.
Book festival chairwoman Joan Michael said: “This is quite unprecedented. We were stunned to see the tickets disappear both online and by post in such a short time. What is even more heartening is that all these people have bought the early birds without knowing who our writers will be. It shows that after 15 years we are being trusted to produce a great programme.”
Those who missed out this week need not fret, she said.
Tickets for all the individual sessions will go on sale towards the end of March when the full programme will be announced.
