An original. A reluctant national treasure. Irvine Welsh stamped his unique brand of storytelling across the consciousness of a nation and changed the face of British fiction with the iconic and ground-breaking Trainspotting.
His 2008 book Crime, the first to feature troubled detective Ray Lennox, was recently adapted for television starring Dougray Scott. *Irvine joins us digitally from Miami to discuss the series and his new Lennox novel The Long Knives in which the DI fights to unravel the truth behind an MP’s murder while battling his own demons and drug addiction.
Irvine will be interviewed by writer and TV presenter James Crawford. Sponsored by the Open University in Scotland.
15/09-10.30pm
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You can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your family. These novels prove that old adage to be a very bad thing as sets of sisters take sibling rivalry way too far.
In Gytha Lodge’s brilliantly twisty Little Sister, two teens go missing before one emerges from the woods covered in blood – but is she killer, witness, or victim?
Sisterly strife is murder waiting to happen in Keep Her Sweet, the shocking and wickedly funny new novel from Helen FitzGerald.
LV Matthews’ The Twins is a fiendishly dark tale of complete opposites bound by an unimaginable secret, and when it’s revealed, only one can survive.
16/09-4.30pm
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There are now 14 books in Elly Griffiths’s hugely popular Norfolk-set series about forensic archaeologist Dr Ruth Galloway. The latest, The Locked Room, cleverly utilises lockdown and makes it central to the enthralling plot.
In Imran Mahmood’s All I Said Was True, Layla claims the mysterious Michael is key to finding who murdered her friend. The problem is, the police can’t find him and aren’t even sure he exists.
Confidence is the latest from the ever-brilliant Denise Mina. The disappearance of an amateur filmmaker leads to an internet frenzy, a thrilling chase across Europe and the tale of a billionaire con artist. The event will be chaired by Craig Sisterson.
#CompulsivePageTurners
16/09-1.30pm
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In a Bloody Scotland first, we bring you a pre-recorded event from New Zealand where three leading Scottish writers will be on stage in Dunedin, in front of a live audience.
Val McDermid’s 1989 is the follow-up to the exceptional 1979. Journalist Allie Burns is back, stumbling over a story about HIV/AIDS against a backdrop of kidnap and murder. CS Robertson’s The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace McGill is a spellbinding tale of loneliness and secrets, from a body in a Glasgow tenement to a missing teen on Bute. Liam McIlvanney’s long-awaited new novel The Heretic sees the return of DI Duncan McCormack to tackle brutal gang warfare in 1975 Glasgow.
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15/09-7.30pm
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Applications for Pitch Perfect close next Friday✍️ (19th of August) We’re looking to discover and encourage new voices in crime writing, please share this post and help us spread the word 📢
bloodyscotland.com/take-part/pitch-perfect/Are you an unpublished crime writer? Do you have an incredible novel to share? Here’s your chance to pitch your novel to a panel of top publishing executives! We’ve opened our Pitch Perfect submissions for 2022 & we’re looking to discover and encourage new voices in crime writing. Please help us by sharing this post.
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