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Lauren Groff: A New New World Survival Story

Wednesday 21 August 17:30 - 18:30

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Lauren Groff talks to Festival Director Jenny Niven about her mesmerising and ferocious new novel, The Vaster Wilds: the story of a spirited servant girl on the run in 17th century colonial America, who must survive the wilderness alone. Three-time…
 

Ajay Close & Saima Mir: Northern Thrills

Wednesday 21 August 18:00 - 19:00

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There’s a killer on the streets of 1970s Leeds. Based on the notorious Yorkshire Ripper case, Ajay Close’s What Doesn’t Kill Us gives voice to young women living in terrifying times. Joining Close is Saima Mir with the sequel to her bestseller, The Khan…
 

Okechukwu Nzelu, Helen Palmer & Nathan Walker: North Faces

Wednesday 21 August 18:00 - 19:00

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Join Barnsley-born poet and Pity author Andrew McMillan as he hosts a showcase of literary talent from the North of England. Tonight McMillan presents a prismatic range of writers – novelists Okechukwu Nzelu and Helen Palmer, poet and performance artist…
 

Keep the Heid and Read: A Career-Long Professional Learning Event with James Robertson

Wednesday 21 August 18:15 - 19:15

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Why not try? Billy Kay: An Ayrshire Legend Billy Kay: An Ayrshire Legend Mon 19 Aug 16:15 - 17:15
 

Lorrie Moore: Danse Macabre

Wednesday 21 August 18:45 - 19:45

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Featuring an undead lover, a dying brother, and a ghost: Lorrie Moore’s I Am Homeless If This is Not My Home is a novel that bristles with life while waltzing with death. Celebrated widely for her dazzling short stories, no one writes quite like Moore;…
 

Beyond Borders: An International Life

Wednesday 21 August 19:30 - 20:30

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To live together peacefully and constructively, it is vital that we gain better understanding between nations and cultures. That’s what Beyond Borders Scotland, founded by Mark Muller Stuart KC, aims to create space for. Today Muller Stuart talks with…
 

If the World Was Mine

Wednesday 21 August 19:45 - 20:45

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Can you imagine a different future? What would you change if the world was yours? Our Writer in Residence Chris Barkley, filmmaker Sophie Van Bree and illustrator Katie Quinn have been working with young people from the Spartans Alternative School to…
 

Andrew O'Hagan: How the Mighty Have Fallen

Wednesday 21 August 20:30 - 21:30

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A celebrated London professor falls from grace in Andrew O’Hagan’s new novel, Caledonian Road. Immersive and Dickensian in ambition, it’s a brilliant state-of-the-nation novel about privilege and what’s really going on behind high society’s façade. As we’…
 

Fern Brady: Strong Female Character

Wednesday 21 August 21:00 - 22:30

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Why not try? Pub Quiz/With a Bang Pub Quiz/With a Bang Sun 25 Aug 21:00 - 22:30