RESIDENTS across Dumbarton and the Vale are invited on a journey through the Hebrides, courtesy of an evening with author and poet, Leonie Charlton.

The event takes place in Alexandria Library on Thursday, November 17, and will explore Marram, Leonie’s book which sees her travel with her friend, Shuna, from the southern tip of Barra to the ancient stone circle of Callanish.

Described as a book which celebrates people and place, it’s billed as “an outer and an inner journey as Leonie confronts her fractured relationship with her late mother”.

Leonie writes poetry and fiction and was the joint winner of the Cinnamon Press Poetry Pamphlet Prize.

She especially enjoys walking and time with horses as ways to feel into landscape, to explore whatever reveals itself through quiet attentive travel. She lives in Glen Lonan in Argyll and is a graduate of the MLitt course in Creative Writing at the University of Stirling.

The evening forms part of Book Week Scotland, which runs from November 14-20. Now in its eleventh year, the event is an annual celebration of books and reading that takes place across the country in November.

Marram – A Journey Through the Hebrides with Leonie Charlton runs from 7-8.30pm. Book at the Scottish Book Trust website.