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Limmy (2017 Event)

Seven Questions about the Journey by Don Paterson Why are we leaving in such unreadiness?... A new poem by Don Paterson is cause for celebration, and this one has been commissioned specially as part of our Elsewhere project of new writing… Seven Questions about the Journey by Don Paterson

Matt Haig (2017 Event)

Harry Baker (2017 Event)

Alexander McCall Smith, Rosemary Goring, Alan Taylor and Ian Rankin

Raja Shehadeh (2017 Event)

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie with Nicola Sturgeon (2017 Event)

Jim Al-Khalili (2017 Event)

Full house at the Usher Hall

Alan Taylor hosts the event

Elsewhere is Aways Waiting by William McIlvanney A woman is ripped from her life of domestic banality by an unexpected knock on her front door… Elsewhere is Aways Waiting by William McIlvanney

Liza Klaussmann

Siri Hustvedt with Elif Shafak (2017 Event)

Sebastian Barry (2017 Event)

Muriel Spark: Crème de la Crème event, Usher Hall, 31 January 2018

Outriders: Harry Giles & Katherena Vermette (2017 Event)

Jess Phillips (2017 Event)

Horror Story by Kirstin Innes The hotel felt like a place where bad things had happened, she’d decided. Something chilling about the uniformity of its too-long Soviet-functional corridors, their flickering lights… Horror Story by Kirstin Innes

Meena Kandasamy & Helen McClory (2017 Event)

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon reads from 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie'

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon reads from 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie'

Royal Lyceum Theatre Artistic Director David Greig introduces extracts from Spark's only play 'Doctors of Philosophy'

Stephen Baxter with Ken MacLeod (2017 Event)

Ian Rankin (2017 Event)

Take Route Six to the Ocean by Amy Bloom Provincetown is a small town on a sand-bar in Massachusetts. On one side is the harbor, on the other side the dunes and the ocean… Take Route Six to the Ocean by Amy Bloom

Extracts from 'Doctors of Philosophy', Spark's only play, performed by cast from the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon reads from 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie'

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon reads from 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie'

John Burnside (2017 Event)

Juliana Buhring (2017 event)

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