The Ghillie-Dhu, 2 Rutland Place, Edinburgh EH1 2AD
Speakers: Jill Dawson & Elspeth Latimer
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Join award winning writers, Jill Dawson & Elspeth Latimer, at the 20th Anniversary Gliterary Lunch in Edinburgh - a sparkling combination of good food, good books and good company. Perfect for client entertaining and meeting up with friends.
Pixie Jill Dawson
The Author
Jill Dawson is the author of eleven novels, one poetry collection and the editor of six anthologies of poetry and stories. Her books have been listed for numerous awards including the Orange Prize (twice), the Whitbread Novel of the Year. Jill also attended the first ever Gliterary Lunch in March 2006. She is now a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has been a Costa Judge, and taught creative writing in many different settings. She lives in Cambridgeshire.
The Book
It’s the turn of the twentieth century and Pamela ‘Pixie’ Colman Smith is a young woman of stark contradictions: plucky yet naïve, artistically gifted despite lacking classical training, fascinated by the esoteric but sceptical of the world around her. After the deaths of her beloved mother and her troubled but well-intentioned father, Pixie finds herself in the complex, political world of fin-de-siècle art, trying to get her stunning work seen and to forge a name and a path for herself in life. Across Jamaica, Devon, London and Brooklyn, Pixie is a novel of epic proportions, a tale of the twists and turns, séances and secrets, successes and devastation, of one young woman’s talent, grit and determination.
In Pixie, Jill Dawson renders the real-life figure of Pamela ‘Pixie’ Colman Smith, artist, publisher and illustrator of the still-iconic Rider–Waite–Smith tarot deck, in arrestingly vivid detail, breathing life into a story that is instantly knowable, but has, until now, eluded popular imagination.
Praise for Jill Dawson
“A work of genius . . . A profoundly feminist book.” Louise Doughty
The Lost Detective Elspeth Latimer
The Author
Elspeth Latimer lives with her family in the Brecks, at the heart of East Anglia. Elspeth is originally from Edinburgh, where she ran a successful architecture practice, before her passion for books prompted a career change. She has a Prose Fiction MA along with a PhD on crime series, from the University of East Anglia. As well as being an author, Elspeth is a creative writing tutor and researcher, and her guide to crime series, Writing the Detectives, is published by Cambridge University Press. Elspeth loves photographing and writing about Norfolk and Suffolk. Most weekends she can be found exploring forgotten paths, crumbling ruins, hushed forests, and waterlogged fens, in search of hidden stories.
The Book
On a summer’s day, a tiny baby vanishes. The mystery is never solved, leaving a young mother lost in grief. Twenty-one years later, ex-police detective Dan Hennessy is struggling with his own tragic loss, and when a neighbour disappears and a body turns up at the solar farm, he is desperate for answers. The haunted landscape is keeping secrets, and there are dangers lurking in the Brecks. Dan must find the truth. Can he offer hope to the grieving mother, and also save himself?
Shortlisted for the Bath Novel Award, The Lost Detective is Elspeth Latimer’s debut crime novel.A compelling story which will keep you turning pages, its characters and images will remain alive long after you have closed the book.
Praise for Elspeth Latimer
“A superb crime debut – beautifully imagined, beautifully written, stylish, tense and genuinely moving.” Lee Child
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