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Isla RO @islaro.bsky.social · 10d

Isla RO @islaro.bsky.social · 26d

📚🌟 ONE WEEK TO GO until Wigtown Book Festival 2025! 🌟📚
Book your tickets here 👇
www.wigtownbookfestival.com/whats-on

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Charlène Busalli @charlenebusalli.bsky.social · 28d

After the exciting whirlwind that was @islaybookfest.bsky.social ‘25, I’m now busy preparing for the four events I’ll be chairing at Wigtown Book Fest! Very excited as it will be my first time going to Scotland’s National booktown. Thanks so much @islaro.bsky.social for inviting me to take part!

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Isla RO @islaro.bsky.social · Aug 28

I hope you’re all limbering up and getting ready for this year’s WIGTOWN'S GOT TALENT! 😆🥳

Entries are open to locals, authors and visitors.

Enter by 5 September via email: [email protected]

WGT show night is 27 September at 7:30pm in The Merse.

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Isla RO @islaro.bsky.social · Aug 25

Gutted I won’t make this year’s @islaybookfest.bsky.social. A huge well done to @charlenebusalli.bsky.social and team for such a great lineup. It’s so exciting to see the festival go from strength to strength Everyone should have this festival on their must-see list. www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...

Five things to see in Scotland this week: from Ali Smith to Hamza Yassin

Plus: catch Afrique en Cirque; Strictly Come Dancing winner Hamza Yassin at Islay Book Festival; Ali Smith and Louise Welsh at Nairn Book and Arts Festival and more

www.thetimes.com

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · Jul 17

Wigtown Festival Company has announced that Isla Rosser-Owen will be returning as its new CEO, overseeing the annual book festival and the rest of the year-round programme 👇 #BookSky

Isla Rosser-Owen returns to Wigtown Book Festival as CEO

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Isla RO @islaro.bsky.social · Jul 17

Thank you @islaybookfest.bsky.social for being always awesome and excellent! 😘

Islay Book Festival @islaybookfest.bsky.social · Jul 17

Huge congratulations to former Islay Book Festival Chair @islaro.bsky.social for her nomination as new CEO of Wigtown Book Festival 🎉📚
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New Wigtown Book Festival chief has 'ambitious plans'

Isla Rosser-Owen will take up the post in Wigtown - Scotland's national book town - next month.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Isla RO @islaro.bsky.social · Jul 16

So in between Covid, a bird mite infestation (don’t ask), and various other casualties, this happened…

I’m sad to be leaving the island again so soon, but excited to be returning to Wigtown in a couple of weeks to take up this new role.

See you soon, Wigtown! 🥳 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New Wigtown Book Festival chief has 'ambitious plans'

Isla Rosser-Owen will take up the post in Wigtown - Scotland's national book town - next month.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Isla RO @islaro.bsky.social · Jul 1

Currently reading this beautifully spooky book! 📚 👻

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Isla RO @islaro.bsky.social · Feb 16

Apparently I live in Scotland’s ‘party island’. I’ve never been classed as ‘cool’ before! 🏝️
#Islay

www.scotsman.com/news/scottis...

Scottish 'party island' named in list of UK's coolest postcodes to move to in 2025

It perhaps comes as no surprise that the island is a well-known spot for whisky.

www.scotsman.com

Isla RO @islaro.bsky.social · Feb 5

It’s taken me all of two weeks of working at @theceltichouse.bsky.social before relenting and buying another book! 😬 Looking forward to this one by @cjcookebooks.bsky.social.

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Isla RO @islaro.bsky.social · Jan 31

Not a bad lunchtime view! #Islay

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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · Jan 3

This guy is up for adoption at my local animal shelter, in case anyone is looking for a guy like this.

A large orange tabby cat lounging like the laziest guy you ever saw.

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Isla RO @islaro.bsky.social · Jan 1

What an amazing aurora display this evening! #Islay #NorthernLights

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Isla RO @islaro.bsky.social · Dec 22

Only on Islay when you visit someone are you sent away with freshly-baked scones and some poems! 😘

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Isla RO @islaro.bsky.social · Dec 17

In personal news, I will be moving on from Bradford Literature Festival at the end of this year. I will be so sad to leave Bradford and all the wonderful new friends I have made here, but it’s time to go and I am looking forward to returning to Islay for some fresh sea air 🙂

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Isla RO @islaro.bsky.social · Dec 11

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

Day 1
#Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

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Isla RO @islaro.bsky.social · Dec 11

It’s nearly time for Christmas on the island (and I may just stay there!) 🏝️ Looking forward to the clear skies and the sea breeze and blowing away those cobwebs. #Islay

Isla RO @islaro.bsky.social · Dec 11

It absolutely is!

Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · Dec 11

Happy to say I've decided to ruin Christmases everywhere by writing an article about whether Die Hard is a Christmas film.

Which side do you come down on?

#Film #Christmas #DieHard

photography.tutsplus.com/articles/is-...

Is Die Hard a Christmas film? | Envato Tuts+

Christmas films were once limited to being quite wholesome. They’d typically be similar to It’s a Wonderful Life (1956), where you’ve got themes of redemption, community, and family values. These...

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Islay Book Festival @islaybookfest.bsky.social · Dec 7

Well worth a listen! We had the most wonderful time at this year’s festival listening to @chitgrrl.bsky.social chat about her book Homelands with @islaro.bsky.social

Chitra Ramaswamy @chitgrrl.bsky.social · Nov 28

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... My dear friend Henry Wuga, the subject of my book Homelands, and I did the BBC World Service programme Outlook! Listen here folks!

Outlook - The Holocaust survivor who became my ‘adopted grandfather’ - BBC Sounds

When journalist Chitra Ramaswamy met 99 year old Henry Wuga, they fell in platonic love

www.bbc.co.uk

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Isla RO @islaro.bsky.social · Nov 24

A gorgeous series of photos, ‘First and Foremost I Am’, by Sigga Ella featuring 21 people with Down’s Syndrome. fstoppers.com/opinion/firs...

First and Foremost I Am: Sigga Ella’s Thought Provoking Photography

Sigga Ella is a photographer from Reykjavík, Iceland whose recent photo series looks to shed light on the ethical questions of where we are headed as a society with today’s ability to choose who is

fstoppers.com

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Isla RO @islaro.bsky.social · Nov 14

Sleepy kitty.

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Isla RO @islaro.bsky.social · Nov 14

The humble Kunafa Tea in Bradford is absolutely wonderful! I would very much recommend it for all your Levantine delicacies.

Isla RO @islaro.bsky.social · Nov 11

“Since achieving celebrity status, Mrs Clarke said Lincoln had become somewhat of a ‘diva at home’ and even stars in his own charity fundraising calendar.” This story brings me so much joy! #cheekycats

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

Anger in Hornsea after Lincoln the 'Tesco Cat' is banned from store

Lincoln the cat has delighted shoppers by visiting the store daily for the past three years.

www.bbc.co.uk

Isla RO @islaro.bsky.social · Nov 7

Weirdly confusing! I got 18/24, most of which were guesses!

Ted (& technically Ro) @brandtandstein.com · Nov 7

This quiz is hilarious. Tolkien character or antidepressant?

Antidepressants or Tolkien character?

antidepressantsortolkien.vercel.app