3 to 19 November · Aberdeen
Signature Food Festival
Some of the UK's most celebrated chefs are heading north this November, and you don't need a trip to London to taste their cooking.
A Write Highland Hoolie
6–8November
Mallaig's book festival is one of the cosiest weekends of the year on the west coast, with writers, musicians and readers gathered in the West Highland Hotel above the harbour. This year Chris Brookmyre, Sally Magnusson, Shona MacLean and Polly Pullar are among the guests, and the Maclean brothers talk about rowing the Pacific. There's music from Rachel Sermanni and members of Mànran and Blazin' Fiddles. Friday night opens with a welcome dram. It runs from Friday 6 to Sunday 8 November, and tickets start at £8 on the festival's website.
When6 to 8 November
WhereMallaig, in Lochaber
Mallaig, in Lochaber
Also on in November.
4 November · Dundee
David Bowie: On Tour
The V&A holds Bowie's own archive – eighty thousand items of costume, lyric sheets, instruments, photographs and notes – and this is the first big showing of it in Scotland.
Art and exhibitions
4 November · Banchory
Maisie Adam: Whatsherface at The Barn
You'll know Maisie Adam from Taskmaster, A League of Their Own and Last One Laughing, and on Wednesday 4 November you can see her up close at The Barn in Banchory.