Calendar: Scotland

Karen Campbell available for events

All year round

Karen Campbell is a police officer turned crime writer and is available for library events, reading group sessions and readers' days. She is happy to give solo talks, or take part in a panel event. She lives in Glasgow and joined the Strathclyde Police in 1987, but after a career break to have her family, she applied to Glasgow University's Creative Writing programme. In 2003, Karen was awarded a Scottish Arts Council New Writer's Bursary. Her debut novel, The Twilight Time, was published in 2008 to great acclaim and was followed last year by After the Fire. Her third novel, Shadowplay, will be published in May 2010.
Visit Karen's website www.karencampbell.co.uk

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World Book Day

Thursday 4th March 2010

Jason Donald will read his specially commissioned short story, followed by a discussion.

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Poetry Party with Raman Mundair, our Poet Partner, and local poets

Monday 18th January at 2.30pm

A celebration of poetry with our Poet Partner and several local poets. Refreshments available. Free but ticketed.

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James Fleming on Cold Blood

March - April 2010

James Fleming is available for library events.

In Fleming's exciting historical adventure, the Russian Revolution is breaking out around him, but Charlie Doig has a private war to fight. He is determined to track down and kill Prokhor Glebov, the Bolshevik who raped and tortured his wife, Elizaveta. Convinced that Glebov will sooner or later turn up at Lenin's side, he and Kobi, his Mongolian henchman, make their way to St. Petersburg. There, amidst the chaos of the Revolution, they discover that Glebov has been put in charge of the political re-education of the Tsar and his family. The chase begins...

For more information, please see http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/book.htm?command=Search&db=main.txt&eqisbndata=0099529521

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Robert Crawford on The Bard

January to February 2010

Robert Crawford is available for library events.

The Bard is a major, brilliantly written new biography of poet Robert Burns, by a leading scholar of Scottish Poetry.

For more information, see http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/book.htm?command=Search&db=main.txt&eqisbndata=1844139301

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John Burnside on Waking Up in Toytown

January - February 2010

John Burnside is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.

The sequel to his haunting, celebrated account of a troubled childhood, A Lie About My Father, John Burnside's startling new memoir follows his hopeless quest for peace and mental security as the ghosts and terrors close in and the illusion of Surbiton falls apart. Unsettling, touching, oddly romantic and unflinchingly honest, this is the story of one man's search for sanity - but it is also, in its own way, the true story of an impossible, unmanageable love.

For more information, see http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/book.htm?command=Search&db=main.txt&eqisbndata=0224080733

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Author talk by MC Beaton

www.eastdunbarton.gov.uk

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Lin Anderson - author talk

28 October 2009 3pm

Lin Anderson will talk about her latest novel in the Rhona MacLeod series, "Final Cut", at Lennoxtown Library

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Martin Bell - A Very British Revolution

Oct 2009 - May 2010

I'm organising a book tour across the country for Martin Bell's new book - in October, November and December, as well as Spring 2010. For more information, click on continue reading.

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