Berwick Book Festival Sunday 15th Oct, 3.15. Chaired by George Cochrane. I'll be reading from and talking about Rose Nicolson, and by extension FAIR HELEN. I'd never intended to write Historical Fiction, but now I find the tension between 'Historical' and 'Fiction' as endlessly challenging and provocative. So it's back to the present of the Past of C16th Scotland, and the Reformation that made Scots who we are.

Blairgowrie Festival Sat 7th Oct, 11.30. Chaired by Magnus Linklater, Lesley Glaister and I will be reading from and talking about our respective novels The Squeeze and Rose Nicolson. Two very different stories taking place in the present of the Past! So hard and so essential to remember that those people, like ourselves, do not know what will happen next!


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