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Graeme Macrae Burnet
The Accident on the A35
Saturday 29 September
Harbour Arts Centre
7.00-8.00pm
£8
Kilmarnock-born Graeme Macrae Burnet is one of Scotland’s
brightest literary talents and Tidelines is delighted to welcome
him to the Festival for the first time. Graeme’s previous novel,
His Bloody Project, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
in 2016 and named the Saltire Society ‘Fiction Book of the Year’.
His latest novel is a darkly humorous and sophisticated literary
mystery, exploring the forgotten corners of small-town life.
Janice Galloway: There’s something about Muriel
The Genius of Mrs Spark
Saturday 29 September
Harbour Arts Centre
8.30-9.30pm
£8
Muriel Spark is one of the most extraordinary writers of the
20th Century, and 2018 marks the centenary of her birth.
Prolific, needle-bright and sharp as a tack, her novels shine as
brightly today as they ever did. Janice Galloway talks about
the work, wit and no-nonsense style of one of Scotland’s
most original writers, in an event suitable for fans of
Muriel Spark and for those unfamiliar with her work alike.
Alex Gray
Appearance and Reality
A crime writer investigates
Sunday 29 September
Harbour Arts Centre
3.30-4.30pm
£6
What better time than a Sunday afternoon for a bit of
crime. Come along and hear popular Scottish crime writer
Alex Gray talking about her writing career and more
specifically about her latest book Only the Dead Can Tell.
Pat Young
I Know Where You Live
Sunday 30 September
Harbour Arts Centre
5.00-6.00pm
£6
If you love to read (or write) psychological thrillers come
along and hear author Pat Young talk about her best-selling
novel T ill the Dust Settles and its sequel I Know Where You Live.
Find out why Lucie’s story starts in New York on 9/11 and
ends in an Ayrshire village, and how an assault on her
husband gave Pat the idea for that chilling title.
This event is part of Muriel Spark 100 centenary programme.
More information at www.murielspark100.com
Pic © London Evening News used by kind permission
The Sunday Post’s Francis Gay
Through the Ages
Sunday 30 September
2.00-3.00pm
Harbour Arts Centre
£6
Francis Gay – in the Sunday Post longer than Oor Wullie
or The Broons – has become a fixed part of the Scottish
cultural identity. But where did he come from, where is
he going, and is he really 117 years old? Join author and
current incarnation of the Sunday Post columnist, David
Mclaughlan, for answers, readings, and a trip down
memory lane. What a perfect way to spend a Sunday
afternoon!
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Douglas Skelton book launch
The Janus Run
Sunday 30 September
Harbour Arts Centre
6.30-7.00pm
Free
The Janus Run is a New York-set thriller described as ‘Jason
Bourne meets The Sopranos’. Coleman Lang is a man with
a past he’d like to forget. But when his lover is found dead
in his bed, he becomes the prime suspect and has to tap
into long dormant skills to survive. With the law, the feds
and the mob on his tail, he dodges bullets and bodies
across the Five Boroughs.
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