New book festival to open in Inverness

A new book festival for Inverness will be held later this week,

NessBookFest has been organised by writers and book fans disappointed by the winding up of Inverness Book Festival in 2015 after a 10-year run.

The new event will be launched at Waterstones bookshop on Thursday evening.

From Friday to Saturday, there will be workshops, a literary walking tour and also poetry at Leakey's Bookshop.

Inverness Book Festival had been held at Eden Court from 2004 to 2014.

The arts venue said the time it took to programme and organise the festival had become "impractical".

Ali Smith, Ian Rankin, Christopher Brookmyre, Louis de Bernieres and Dina Mina were among authors to appear at the previous festival.