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    Reading Scotland: Shola von Reinhold, Frock Consciousness

    Tuesday 17 August 14:30 - 15:30

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    Reading Scotland: Shola von Reinhold, Frock Consciousness
    To read Shola von Reinhold’s novel LOTE is to be transported to a world of poetry, aestheticism, decadence and queer celebration. ‘People like to presume madness over style whenever they have the chance,’ it begins, as Reinhold takes readers on a...
     

    Salena Godden: Bringing Death to Life

    Tuesday 17 August 16:00 - 17:00

    Salena Godden: Bringing Death to Life
    What if Death was not a faceless skeleton with a cloak and a scythe, but a working-class Black woman who shapeshifts and who has spent the whole of eternity doing her work unseen? Worn out and exhausted, Death wishes to unburden herself of the stories...
     

    Samar Yazbek: Escapism for Survival

    Tuesday 17 August 16:15 - 17:15

    Samar Yazbek: Escapism for Survival
    The TV news reports from war-torn countries such as Syria offer a picture of suffering amid the debris and devastation, with women and children often reduced to the role of ‘victims’. Can we reach a more complex understanding of how non-combatants...
     

    Alexander McCall Smith: Human Kindness

    Tuesday 17 August 17:30 - 18:30

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    Alexander McCall Smith: Human Kindness
    This year, the much-loved Alexander McCall Smith has hit a purple patch and has written even more books than ever. There’s The Joy and Light Bus Company – a new title in the phenomenal No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, while Your Inner...
     

    Sonia Faleiro & Megha Majumdar: Outrages in India

    Tuesday 17 August 19:00 - 20:00

    Sonia Faleiro & Megha Majumdar: Outrages in India
    In a village in Uttar Pradesh, North India, two teenage girls go missing and are later discovered hanging from a tree. What happened and why did they die? And why on earth do the grieving women of the village form a circle round the tree trunk to...
     

    Rachel Kushner: Postcards from America

    Tuesday 17 August 19:15 - 20:15

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    Rachel Kushner: Postcards from America
    ‘Clarice Lispector had a diamond-hard intelligence, a visionary instinct and a sense of humour that veered from naïf wonder to wicked comedy.’ This snapshot of the great Brazilian writer is from an essay in Rachel Kushner’s new book The Hard...
     

    Stories & Scran

    Tuesday 17 August 20:30 - 21:30

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    Stories & Scran
    Following a highly successful event last year Stories & Scran returns, providing a platform for the dynamic and thought-provoking work created by our Citizen participants. Over the last 12 months, Citizen Writer in Residence Eleanor Thom and poet Leyla...
     

    R-Words: Infectious Poetry for Everyone 

    Wednesday 18 August 10:00 - 11:00

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    R-Words: Infectious Poetry for Everyone 
    As we navigate the pandemic we have all learned more medical terminology and nothing has been more important than the ‘R number’, explaining the rate of infection. Yet for writer and theatre director Ross Mackay, the R number is the inspiration...
     

    Axel Scheffler: Hooray for Pip and Posy!

    Age 3+

    Wednesday 18 August 10:15 - 11:00

    Axel Scheffler: Hooray for Pip and Posy!
    Axel Scheffler may be best known for his collaborations with Julia Donaldson, including his iconic illustrations of the legendary Gruffalo, but his adorable duo Pip and Posy are stars in their own right too, and now even feature in their own animated TV...
     

    Ciaran Martin with Tom Devine: Where Next for the United Kingdom?

    Wednesday 18 August 11:30 - 12:30

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    Ciaran Martin with Tom Devine: Where Next for the United Kingdom?
    Currently a professor at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government, Ciaran Martin played a key role as a senior civil servant for David Cameron’s government in negotiating the terms of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum. Seven years...

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