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  • Aug 10, 2024 | bookmarkblair.com | Allan Radcliffe |Zoë Strachan |Louise Welsh

    Main information Date: Saturday 5 October 2024 Time: 1:30 pm Location: Blairgowrie Community Campus PH10 6UZ Price: £10 Author: Allan Radcliffe Author: Zoë Strachan With: Louise Welsh Allan and Zoë are going to treat us all to a ‘creative conversation’. They are both writers of fiction and their work has mutual interests in themes of family, the past and changing landscapes.

  • Jan 25, 2024 | booksfromscotland.com | Louise Welsh |Patrick E. Jamieson

    ‘Whether it appears on the bookshop shelves as a campus novel or a crime one, Welsh’s latest novel is more thought-provoking than most in either genre.’David Robinson is, as ever, thoroughly impressed by Louise Welsh as she confounds genre expectations in her latest novel, To The Dogs.

  • Jan 24, 2024 | booksfromscotland.com | Alasdair Gray |Louise Welsh

    It's hard to get excited about a new year with winter storms continuing to bash us about, but when it comes to books, there is always much to get excited by! Let us ring your bell with brilliant new voices, fantastic fiction, poetry, history and children's books, delicious recipes and celebrations of our legendary literary past.

  • Jan 18, 2024 | canongate.co.uk | Louise Welsh

    A TIMES BEST NEW CRIME FICTION OF THE MONTHJim Brennan is flying high. Against all odds, he is a big man at the university, tipped for the head job and an office at the top of the ivory tower. He has a beautiful, accomplished wife and two healthy children. Jim drives an Audi, and his dog is a pedigree bichon frisé. Not bad for the son of a hardman who grew up in a room and kitchen.

  • Jan 17, 2024 | heraldscotland.com | Barry Didcock |Louise Welsh

    Louise Welsh (Image: free) Think campus novels and you think of Kinglsey Amis’s Lucky Jim, set in a so-called red brick university somewhere in the English Midlands in the early 1950s. Or Tom Sharpe’s ribald Porterhouse Blue, from 1974, which skewers life in a Cambridge college. Or the novels of David Lodge, a professor of English at Birmingham University, whose celebrated trilogy of satirical digs at academic life culminated in 1988’s Nice Work.

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