Clare Coghill
Clare Coghill is a Scottish Gaelic-speaking chef who grew up on Skye, where her family had owned a hotel for over 100 years. Despite a childhood immersed in the hospitality industry, she spent her twenties doing everything from training brewers at Tennant’s, pouring candles for an artisan candle company, and working as a TV researcher. After winning the title of Britain’s Best Home Cook on C4’s My Kitchen Rules, she started to think about returning to the world of hospitality. Café Cuil Cookbook, recipes from the Isle of Skye, is her first book.
Alongside her interview, Clare will be signing books on stand D87.
Ann Landmann
Ann Landmann has been active in the Scottish literary scene since 2005, when she moved to Edinburgh to work for the Edinburgh International Book Festival in one of their pop-up bookshops. She then spent 13 years at Blackwell's Bookshop, nine of them as their Events Manager, running book stalls and events of all sizes, before moving across to work for Edinburgh-based publisher Birlinn Ltd as a Sales Representative. She is the founder and director of Cymera: Scotland's Festival of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Writing and a trustee of Edinburgh City of Literature. In her spare time she can be found in the Scottish hills researching her book of Wild Swimming Walks.