Ewan Morrison and Alan Bissett

The young men of Scottish literature are growing up and taking us with them! Both talk about their latest books in this event: Alan Bissett about Death of a Ladies? Man where his boy racer discovers a life of work, sex and love; and Ewan Morrison picks apart the complexities of contemporary relationships in his latest, Menage.

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