Celebrate the best of Scottish writing with two giants from the country’s literary scene. This rare and exciting conversation between Jenni Fagan and Irvine Welsh will see them explore their own writing, discuss creativity and reflect on modern Scottish literature. They talk to writer and presenter Jude Rogers.
Fagan won the Gordon Burn Prize for her memoir Ootlin. Her new novel The Delusions is about Edi, who has spent almost 50 years processing the newly dead and waiting to be reunited with her son when he dies. Irvine Welsh has described the story as “1984 for the afterlife”.
Welsh’s latest novel Men in Love sees him revisit the beloved characters – Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie – from his era-defining novel Trainspotting at the end of the 1980s and the dawn of the 1990s, as they wonder if love is the answer to their dreams.
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Booking for all other Members opens at 12pm on Wednesday 11 March.
General booking opens at 12pm on Saturday 14 March.