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    Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé: Play the Cards You're Dealt

    Age 14+

    Sunday 15 August 17:15 - 18:15

    Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé: Play the Cards You're Dealt
    Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé is the instant New York Times and IndieBound bestselling author of Ace of Spades. Described as ‘this summer’s hottest YA debut’, the thriller will literally have you on the edge of your seat right up to the final...
     

    Jed Mercurio & Prasanna Puwanarajah: The Bionic Policeman

    Monday 16 August 20:30 - 21:30

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    Jed Mercurio & Prasanna Puwanarajah: The Bionic Policeman
    If you were one of the millions of people captivated by hit TV police thriller Line of Duty, the name of its creator and screenwriter Jed Mercurio will be very familiar. Now Mercurio has teamed up with actor, writer and director Prasanna Puwanarajah and...
     

    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

    Changed 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...
     

    Denise Mina: Treason and Plot

    Wednesday 18 August 14:30 - 15:30

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    Denise Mina: Treason and Plot
    Things just get better and better for Denise Mina. Her novels have twice been Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novels of the Year, and recently The Less Dead was shortlisted for the Costa Novel of the Year. Now the Glasgow-based author has looked to a...
     

    David Peace & Chris Power: Cities That Cast Long Shadows

    Thursday 19 August 13:00 - 14:00

    David Peace & Chris Power: Cities That Cast Long Shadows
    Berlin and Tokyo: two peaceful and thriving cities… yet each haunted by the weight of history, where everything is imbued with ‘the stench of the past, the noise of the future.’ Chris Power’s clever debut novel A Lonely Man is set in Berlin...
     

    Val McDermid: The Winter of Our Discontent

    Thursday 19 August 14:30 - 15:30

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    Val McDermid: The Winter of Our Discontent
    The fan club for Val McDermid’s books just keeps growing – lapping up each new novel featuring either DCI Karen Pirie or Tony Hill and Carol Jordan. But whether you’re an old hand or new to McDermid’s work, there’s something special this...
     

    Reading Scotland: Helen McClory, The New Edinburgh Gothic

    Thursday 19 August 17:30 - 18:30

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    Reading Scotland: Helen McClory, The New Edinburgh Gothic
    In a northern European city not unlike Edinburgh, three young people’s lives intersect in the flat they share. But as Helen McClory’s eagerly anticipated Bitterhall unfolds, her characters Daniel, Orla and Tom begin to be haunted by something very...
     

    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...
     

    Viet Thanh Nguyen: Through the Eyes of a Vietnamese Refugee

    Friday 20 August 20:15 - 21:15

    Viet Thanh Nguyen: Through the Eyes of a Vietnamese Refugee
    In 1975, at the age of four, Viet Thanh Nguyen fled from Vietnam with his family. Like so many others, these refugees from their war-torn country ended up in America. Fortunately, Nguyen is blessed with a stellar command of the written word and has...

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