Join us for an evening celebrating Scottish women in writing with a panel of three acclaimed Scottish authors, chaired by Scottish actor and comedian Gavin Mitchell, best known for playing Robert "Boaby the Barman" Taylor in the Scottish sitcom Still Game.

DENISE MINA
Crime Writers’ Association Hall of Fame inductee Denise Mina will read from her latest of 15 published novels The Good Liar.

"A stand-out read'" - GUARDIAN

"Crime-writing royalty" - IAN RANKIN

"Britain's best living crime writer" - SUNDAY EXPRESS

KIRSTY LOGAN
A fiction writer, screenwriter, book reviewer, freelance editor and writing mentor, Kirsty Logan will read from her latest book is ‘No & Other Love Stories’, a collection of very (very) dark tales of love.

"A gothic homage to the visceral, haunting, unnerving nature of human connection" - ALICE SLATER (author of Death of a Bookseller)

"Full of strange beauty and shining humour" - STYLIST

"Darkly graceful, innovative, sexy and funny. Kirsty Logan is a jewel" - CAMILLA GRUDOVA (author of The Doll's Alphabet)

LOUISE WELSH
Award-winning author of eight novels, named most Inspiring Saltire First Book Award winner by public vote and Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow, Louise Welsh will read from her latest novel, a Times best new crime fiction of the month ‘To the Dogs.’

”To the Dogs is easily the best of Welsh’s recent crime novels. I simply could not put it down” - ALEX GRAY

"Every character, even Benji the bichon frisé, is sharply and succinctly defined. To the Dogs, dripping in irony, is a gripping amorality tale” - THE TIMES

"To the Dogs confirms Welsh’s position in the very top tier of Scottish novelists, whatever the genre” DOUG JOHNSTONE, BIG ISSUE