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Saturday 26 February
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union street, aberdeen - circa 1972
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Saturday 26 February diy book club
Always wanted to join a book club but haven’t found the right one? Why not start your own? The team at Aberdeen Library Service will take you through some top tips for getting folk together over books. Just some topics we’ll cover are: recommended reading lists; conversation starters; using your library to help; inviting authors to chat to your book group; and the many ways to make it work whether online or over a cup of tea in person.
10am-11am, Central Library Tickets £6 10am-11am, Lemon Tree Studio Tickets £9.50
Saturday 26 February magic in the air
Chaired by Theresa Talbot
Stories interwoven with the surreal and the unimaginable. In The Spirit Engineer, AJ West’s tale asks if the spirits are truly communicating from beyond the veil or is it a parlour trick gone too far? Sinister rituals connect past and present in Helen Sedgwick’s Where the Missing Gather but no one wants to see, or tell, or hear, the truth. In Leviathan, Rosie Andrews uncovers not a tale of superstition but something dark and ancient, linked to a shipwreck years before.
Saturday 26 February Chaired by Katalina Wattbold new voices
Our debut writer panel is back with three extraordinary new talents. Hannah King draws on dark and twisting storytelling, relationships, class, mental health and addiction... with a few murders thrown in! Graeme Armstrong’s The Young Team is an energetic novel, full of the loyalty, laughs, mischief, boredom and violence of life on the streets. Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, is an incendiary and compelling thriller with a shocking twist that delves deep into institutionalized racism.
12pm-1pm, Lemon Tree Studio Tickets £9.50 12pm-1pm, Central Library Tickets £6.50
Saturday 26 February how to get published
A workshop for anyone who’s ever dreamed of becoming a published author. We’ll cover everything including approaching literary agents, what publishers are looking for, the pros and cons of self-publishing, and the support available to new writers in Scotland. Bring your questions! Jenny Brown established her agency in 2002 and now represents 50 writers. She was shortlisted in 2014 and 2020 for Agent of the Year at the British Book awards. She is former Chair of the Bloody Scotland crime writing festival.
Saturday 26 February no escape
Chaired by Theresa Talbot
Three stories surrounded by water, mystery and suspicion. Alice Clark-Platt’s luxury Malaysian resort surrounded by pristine sea and beautiful jungle, may seem the perfect escape but there’s tension brewing. In After the Silence, by Louise O Neill, can a true crime documentary expose the real truth of an island murder? In Tom Watson’s Metronome we meet Aina and Whitney who have been in exile on an island for a crime they committed together – as secrets and suspicions reveal themselves, can they escape?
Chaired by Bryan Burnett closer than close
Three brilliant books where close relationships are tested to the absolute limits. Join us as Oyinkan Braithwaite shows us how blood is thicker – and more difficult to get out of the carpet – than water, in her acclaimed book My Sister the Serial Killer. LV Matthews explores an intense bond, and a bitter rivalry, and Lexie Elliott asks us: if you thought your friend deserved to die, could you kill her?
4pm-5pm, Lemon Tree Studio Tickets £9.50
author conversation Saturday 26 February the power of the past
Our authors focus in on the past in a new series and explore some of Scotland’s most murky history. In Rizzio, Denise Mina brilliantly portrays the sexual dynamics and politics of power – between men and women, monarch and subjects, master and servants. Offering a visceral depiction of a culture of fear and superstition in Hex, Jenni Fagan explores the lingering connections between womanhood and the occult, and the obsessive mania of a king who saw the threat of demons and witches all around him.
Chaired by Alex Clark
6pm-7pm, Lemon Tree Studio Tickets £9.50
