Byres Road Book Festival: Shelagh Campbell

26 September 2025 2:00 pm

Join Shelagh Campbell for a reading of her latest book, Ailig agus an Dalek Gàidhlig.

When Ailig’s teacher arranges a Halloween party in school, Ailig knows that he wants to dress up as a Dalek. There’s only one problem, though – his teacher says that the children must dress up as characters who speak Gaelic.

Shelagh Campbell is from Glasgow and writes fiction for children and adults in Scottish Gaelic. She was selected as the Scottish Book Trust’s Gaelic New Writer Awardee for 2022. She won Gaelic Literature Awards for Best Unpublished Manuscript for Children in 2020 and 2023 and for Best Fiction Book in 2024. Her first novel for adults, Far na Slighe, was published by Luath Press in 2024 and her first children’s book, Ailig agus an Dalek Gàidhlig was published by Acair in 2025