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    Raven Leilani & Patricia Lockwood: Sharp, Fragmentary Fiction

    Thursday 19 August 19:15 - 20:15

    Raven Leilani & Patricia Lockwood: Sharp, Fragmentary Fiction
    Fans of cutting-edge fiction will not want to miss this brilliant meeting of minds. Both Patricia Lockwood and Raven Leilani have written sizzling debut novels that are being celebrated by critics, loved by readers and gaining recognition from major...
     

    Doug Johnstone, Val McDermid, Ambrose Parry & Mary Paulson-Ellis: Summer Crime Wave

    Thursday 19 August 20:30 - 22:00

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    Doug Johnstone, Val McDermid, Ambrose Parry & Mary Paulson-Ellis: Summer Crime Wave
    A few months ago there was a minor storm in the Twitterverse when a group of Scottish authors realised their books would all be published on more or less the same day in August. How could we ignore this explosion of Scottish crime writing? Today we’re...
     

    Carol Ann Duffy: ‘You Danced On the Road, Blowing Kisses’

    Friday 20 August 10:00 - 11:00

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    Carol Ann Duffy: ‘You Danced On the Road, Blowing Kisses’
    ‘Your vacant room / is a still-life framed by the unclosed door; / read by sunlight, an open book on the floor.’ This plaintive cry will be familiar to many empty nesters who have seen a child grow up and leave home. Written by Carol Ann Duffy, it...
     

    Allen Fatimaharan & Hannah Lee: 99 Problems but a Beat Ain’t One

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    Friday 20 August 11:15 - 11:30

    Allen Fatimaharan & Hannah Lee: 99 Problems but a Beat Ain’t One
    Clap, snap and rap to the beat in this awesome event as the team behind My Hair presents their new picture book The Rapping Princess. Princess Shiloh cannot sing like all the other princesses, but does she have another talent? Author Hannah Lee helps...
     

    Stuart Kelly: Walter Scott, Writer of the Future?

    Friday 20 August 11:30 - 12:30

    Stuart Kelly: Walter Scott, Writer of the Future?
    Walter Scott had more impact than any other author on this country. Quite simply, he reimagined Scotland. Previously conceptualised by the likes of Samuel Johnson as ‘primitive’, with a landscape that was ‘horrid’, by the time Scott was done...
     

    Kevin Barry: Looking Across a Bog to the Bluestack Mountains

    Friday 20 August 13:00 - 14:00

    Kevin Barry: Looking Across a Bog to the Bluestack Mountains
    Sligo, Leitrim and Limerick are some of Ireland’s smaller, less populated counties. So what did they do to deserve the talents of Kevin Barry? The answer lies in the tender and humorous short stories of Barry’s newest collection, That Old Country...
     

    Scholastique Mukasonga: Reclaiming Rwanda’s Stories

    Friday 20 August 14:15 - 15:15

    Scholastique Mukasonga: Reclaiming Rwanda’s Stories
    The genocide of 1994 in Rwanda continues to cast a long shadow over the country – and over its European colonisers. Belgian colonists and missionaries originally favoured Rwanda’s minority Tutsi people (even devising an ‘ethnic identity card’ in...
     

    Peter Ross: The Stories and Glories of Graveyards

    Friday 20 August 14:30 - 15:30

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    Peter Ross: The Stories and Glories of Graveyards
    How is it possible that a book about graveyards can be so full of life? The colourful characters who populate Peter Ross’s non-fiction book, A Tomb with a View, include a bisexual Italian Bohemian hedonist named Marchesa Luisa Casati, who is buried in...
     

    Vivian Gornick: A Map of American Feminism

    Friday 20 August 16:00 - 17:00

    Vivian Gornick: A Map of American Feminism
    In an age of instant opinions and the daily social media rush from one outrage to another, it’s refreshing to read the words of an 85 year old writer who insists on taking her time. In fact, Taking a Long Look, Vivian Gornick’s latest essay...
     

    Out of the Hot Zone

    Friday 20 August 17:15 - 18:15

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    Out of the Hot Zone
    The effects of the climate crisis are far-reaching and disastrous: from unliveable conditions and resource scarcity, to economic collapse, political unrest, and war. Over the course of the next 50 years, between one and three billion people will be left...

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