Damian Barr: Forgotten Love

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Damian Barr: Forgotten Love

Bestselling author of Maggie and Me and host of the Big Scottish Book Club, the ebullient Damien Barr takes us back in time to 1930s Scotland with his intoxicating new novel. The Two Roberts is about real artists, Robert Colquhoun and Robert MacBryde, who met at Glasgow School of Art, and whose passionate romance Barr now stunningly reimagines. Join him today as he sheds deserved light on the love story of two pioneering Scottish artists.

Supported by Claire and Mark Urquhart.

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, LGBTQIA+

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