The first Ullapool Book Festival was held in May 2005. Our aim has always been to have an annual festival that attracts the writers that we and the audience want to hear and to celebrate. It has developed into an event that brings people from all over and, as our honorary president Chris Dolan said in his introduction to the 2018 festival programme, “This is a time for books and reflection and dialogue, for considering who we are and looking out into the wider world.”