Black Isle writer set for book signing session

BLACK Isle writer Verity Walker, who recently celebrated the publication of her debut novel, Major Tom’s War, will do a reading and signing event at Waterstone’s bookshop in the Eastgate Shopping Centre, Inverness, on Thursday (November 15).

Written under the name Vee Walker, it is set against the background of World War I and although it is a work of fiction, it is based on real people, places and events drawn from her grandfather’s unpublished war diary.

Ms Walker played a key role in the weekend's Armistice events in the northern French town of Bavay which he helped to liberate.

She delivered lectures at local schools as well as taking part in the Armistice Parade and service at the Bavay war memorial where the Flower of Scotland was sung in her honour along with the French national anthem, La Marseillaise, and God Save The Queen.

The Waterstone's event starts at 6pm.