Fortunately we didn’t need to. But when we spotted Talisman author Paul Murdoch heading for Waterstones in East Kilbride, we nabbed him and ‘persuaded’ him to sign a few copies for us. The ‘persuaders’ fled their seats before they could be captured on film, but we caught brief sight of one of them as he made a break…
Endless Empress author Kirkland Ciccone was the talk of Edinburgh International Book Festival yesterday. His début appearance was noteworthy in itself, but something else also caught the eye. Sing along now…Where did you get that suit, where did you get that suit (and tie)? With such an eye-catching…
Stephen King and TT from BBC Radio Scotland. Eh…what’s the link (we hear you ask)? Well, it suddenly occurred to us that Theresa Talbot‘s This Is What I Look Like is to Traffic and Travel presenting what Stephen King’s On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft is to putting pen to paper: both are entertaining memoirs…
Theresa outlines the rather odd suggestion that gave rise to her book…
Theresa Talbot, Kirsty Wark, Christopher Brookmyre and James Naughtie. All on the same pavement at the same time, and all in Pitlochry. Ok, they’re not there in person. Not yet. But they will be soon – Winter Words at Pitlochry Festival Theatre runs 13-21 Feb 2015. Theresa will be main attraction at the Literary Lunch…
…but with a bit of grunge thrown in, because Conjuring The Infinite and Endless Empress author Kirkland Ciccone appears to have kidnapped the ghost of Kurt Cobain and whisked him off to the yurt at Edinburgh International Book Festival, as you can see in this great new video: Kirkland is off to collect the Catalyst Award…
Nothing author Janne Teller will be speaking at HowTheLightGetsIn, the world’s largest philosophy and music festival, this May in Hay-on-Wye. Janne will join Hilary Benn and Thomas Dichter to debate whether foreign aid is perpetuating poverty, speak on whether the web needs a democratic revolution and debate whether distance is irrelevant to moral responsibility. (For…
No, despite the alliterative overload, we haven’t been invaded by tabloid headline writers! We won’t always post our media releases, but we thought you might enjoy some of the quotes in this one. Media release Kirkland Ciccone’s debut novel Conjuring The Infinite, published by Strident, has been shortlisted for the 2014 Catalyst Book Award for…
But fear not, author David MacPhail has this beast under control! As a special World Book Day treat, a few lucky pupils in both towns were given a sneak preview of David’s debut, Yeti on the Loose. David was last seen being tape-measured by young readers keen to know how tall a yeti is compared…
The BBC recently unearthed a portrait of Bonnie Prince Charlie. Portraits are often more propaganda than true representation, and few leaders have been more romanticised than Charles Edward Stuart, figurehead for the Jacobite Uprising of 1745 . On 4 March we’re publishing For The Good of the Cause, Seán Damer’s brilliant fictionalised account of the events behind…
Scottish Book Trust have listed Icefall – the fourth book in Gillian Philip‘s acclaimed Rebel Angels series – as one of the dozen Scottish books to look forward to in 2014. It’s out on 18 March…just enough time to read Firebrand, Bloodstone and Wolfsbane if you haven’t already…or re-read them if you have! Click here to…
…you’re in for a big surprise. Because Kirkland Ciccone has been signing copies of Conjuring The Infinite, his YA novel. Run and you might just catch one on either the Strident or ‘Signed’ shelves in the festival’s bookshop.
Conjuring The Infinite author Kirkland Ciccone will be donning a Viking helmet and heading to Largs for the 2013 Tidelines Book Festival, which runs 31 Aug to 8 Sep. More info as soon as we know the precise date and time. Why the helmet? Because the book festival runs at the same time as the Largs…