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    David Keenan: Nothing is Real in Airdrie

    Saturday 13 August 20:30 - 21:30

    David Keenan: Nothing is Real in Airdrie Book
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    In a new novel set in the same hallucinatory world as This Is Memorial Device, David Keenan imagines 1960s Airdrie in Industry of Magic and Light. Record collector Teddy Ohm is part of a cult lightshow which creates ‘happenings’. But in making light...
     

    Close Read: Jess Brough on Octavia E Butler’s Parable of the Sower

    Monday 15 August 13:00 - 14:30

    Close Read: Jess Brough on Octavia E Butler’s Parable of the Sower Book
    Why not try? Close Read: Open Book on Poetry Close Read: Open Book on Poetry Wed 17 Aug 13:00 - 14:30
     

    BHP Comics: Killing Time

    Age 14+

    Tuesday 16 August 12:30 - 13:30

    BHP Comics: Killing Time Book
    Why not try? Mya-Rose Craig: Birdgirl’s Journey Mya-Rose Craig: Birdgirl’s Journey Age 14+ Sun 21 Aug 14:15 - 15:15
     

    Olga Wojtas: Murder, Martial Arts and Macbeth

    Tuesday 16 August 15:30 - 16:30

    Olga Wojtas: Murder, Martial Arts and Macbeth Book
    Why not try? Karen Campbell & Charlie Roy: Things We Don’t Remember, Things We Can’t Forget Karen Campbell & Charlie Roy: Things We Don’t Remember, Things We Can’t Forget Tue 23 Aug 14:00 - 15:00
     

    BHP Comics: How to Get into Comics

    Age 14+

    Tuesday 16 August 16:00 - 17:00

    BHP Comics: How to Get into Comics Book
    Why not try? Chasing the Edinburgh Sirens with Elle McNicoll Chasing the Edinburgh Sirens with Elle McNicoll Age 8-12 Sun 14 Aug 10:00 - 11:00
     

    Marlon James: A Fantastical Star

    Tuesday 16 August 19:30 - 20:30

    Marlon James: A Fantastical Star Book
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    What does a writer do once they’ve won the Booker Prize? If you’re the indefatigable Marlon James, you embark on a wildly ambitious series that defies easy characterisation. The second in the Dark Star trilogy Moon Witch, Spider King draws...
     

    Georgi Gospodinov: Time is Out to Get Us

    Friday 19 August 10:30 - 11:30

    Georgi Gospodinov: Time is Out to Get Us Book
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    Thomas Mann argued there’s nothing ‘actual’ about time: humans don’t possess an organ that can sense it. Award-winning Bulgarian novelist Georgi Gospodinov plays with this idea in Time Shelter, beautifully translated into English by Angela...
     

    Katherine Webber: Can a Cursed Friendship Survive?

    Age 14+

    Friday 19 August 15:00 - 16:00

    Katherine Webber: Can a Cursed Friendship Survive? Book
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    Katherine Webber’s The Revelry is the story of best friends, questionable decisions, bad luck and secrets. When Bitsy and Amy sneak into an off-limits party in the woods, everything starts to unravel, taking their friendship down a murky path. Join...
     

    Leave the Land of the Living with Melinda Salisbury & V E Schwab

    Age 12+

    Friday 19 August 16:30 - 17:30

    Leave the Land of the Living with Melinda Salisbury & V E Schwab Book
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    In her number one Sunday Times bestseller, Gallant, V E Schwab tells the darkly magical tale of a young woman caught between the world and its shadows. In Her Dark Wings, three-time Carnegie-nominated author Melinda Salisbury takes us to the edge of the...
     

    Karl Ove Knausgaard: The Familiar Made Strange

    Saturday 20 August 11:30 - 12:30

    Karl Ove Knausgaard: The Familiar Made Strange Book
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    My Struggle was the six-volume autofictional project that established Karl Ove Knausgaard among the world’s most respected writers. Now, the Norwegian author embarks on a new literary odyssey. The Morning Star is a novel steeped in the uncanny,...