Forthcoming events
Author Event with Cal Flyn - 10 September 2026
An evening with Cal Flyn
Award -winning author and journalist
Thursday 10 September 2026 at 7.00pm
Cal will speak about and read from her latest book ‘The Savage Landscape: How We Made the Wilderness’, and answer your questions.
Venue: Roots Café, 1 Crown Avenue, Inverness IV2 3NF
at the corner of Stephen’s Street)
Cost: £7 with a £5 concession
HighlandLIT members go free!
Concessions: Under-18s, People on low income; over-60s
This is an in-person event. Please book on Eventbrite (QR code in flyer above)
More about Cal:
Cal Flyn is a writer and journalist from the Highlands of Scotland. She is the author of nonfiction books Thicker Than Water (2016) and Islands of Abandonment (2021). The latter won her the title of Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year (UK) and the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing (US); it was also a Radio 4 Book of the Week and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize, the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize, and the British Academy Book Prize, and others. In 2024, she received the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. She has written for publications including The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian and National Geographic. Her third book The Savage Landscape: How We Made the Wilderness, is out now.
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