There were nervous smiles and possibly some fluttery stomachs in and around the Enwave Theatre for last night’s “Men of Letters” reading, the first event of the first-ever BOOKED festival. The featured authors were Ray Robertson, Steven Henighan, David Gilmour, and Barry Callaghan. Despite a couple of small glitches – there were no Robertson titles available at the booksellers’ table; Callaghan had to borrow water from an audience member – the event went off fairly smoothly. The theatre was around half-full, with between 75 and 100 people attending (including editors and publicists from each of the authors’ respective publishing houses). Q&Q columnist James Grainger hosted. Selling books at the event were reps from Another Story and Bakka-Phoenix.