More than 200 authors covering topics such as politics, mental health and music are taking part in this year's Aye Write! festival.
Glasgow's book festival is being held in seven venues across the city this year, playing host to best-selling authors, performances, masterclasses, a gig and a film screening.
Popular authors Maggie O'Farrell, Val McDermid and Chris Brookmyre are among some of the names in the 10-day line up, which gets under way on Thursday.
O'Farrell will discuss her new book - I am, I am, I am - a memoir of her life in near-death experiences.
McDermid and Brookmyre are taking part in a gig by the Fun Loving Crimewriters, who promise to cover songs with a "criminal flavour".
Broadcaster Evan Davis will discuss his book on Post Truth, Brett Anderson will chart his journey to becoming the founder and lead singer of Suede, and "flying Scotsman" cyclist Graeme Obree will discuss his childhood poverty, battles with depression and the publication of a new edition of his book, The Obree Way.
From the world of politics, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, who became the UK's first Muslim Cabinet minister, and Liberal Democrat deputy leader Jo Swinson will discuss their books, The Enemy Within and Equal Power, respectively.
Composer Sir James MacMillan, lawyer Aamer Anwar and Scotland's Makar Jackie Kay will be among those sharing thoughts on the books that have inspired them throughout their lives.
Meanwhile, an examination of classic 1970s film Get Carter and the story of the writer of the book it is based on will be held at the Glasgow Film Theatre.
Other venues for the 2018 festival include The Mitchell Library, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, the Centre for Contemporary Arts, City Halls, Glasgow University and Tramway.
Festival programmer Bob McDevitt said: "From keynote lectures to political panels, illustrated talks to confessional memoirs, award-winning poetry to best-selling novels, Aye Write! will be reflecting our lives, responding to topical concerns and hopefully offering some answers to the big questions of our age.
"Book lovers of Glasgow can look forward to the biggest festival yet."
Jenny Niven, of arts funding body Creative Scotland, added: "We are very excited to see an expansion of the 2018 programme to new venues across the city bringing literature to life throughout Glasgow."
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules here