Edinburgh Gliterary Lunch, Spring 2025

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Edinburgh Gliterary Lunch, Spring 2025

27th March 2025
12:00 pm - 3:00 pm

The Ghillie-Dhu, 2 Rutland Place, Edinburgh EH1 2AD

Speakers:
Lucy Steeds and Hanna Thomas Uose

Join Lucy Steeds and Hanna Thomas Uose at the Edinburgh Gliteary Lunch - a sparkling combination of good food, good books and good company.

The Artist
Lucy Steeds

The Author

Blazing new talent, Lucy is a graduate of both the Faber Academy and the London Library Emerging Writers Programme. She began writing The Artist while living in France, and currently splits her time between London and Amsterdam. The Artist has been listed for the BPA First Novel Award, the Yeovil Literary Prize, the Page Turner Awards, the Fiction Factory First Chapter Competition, and was a Finalist in the Spotlight First Novel Award and the Moniack Mhor Emerging Writer Award. Lucy herself has synaesthesia and uses this to play with ways of translating images into words.

 

The Book

The idea for THE ARTIST came from a very small sentence in a very large book about art history. The sentence simply said: ‘I know of no notable female forgers in the history of forgery.’ 

The year is 1920. The place is a remote farmhouse in Provence, home to the reclusive painter Edouard Tartuffe and his niece, Ettie. Into this strange, silent house walks Joseph: a young journalist hoping to write an article about Tartuffe. But the more he entangles himself in the peculiar household, the more Joseph’s curiosity grows . . .

Ettie cooks and cleans for her uncle. She prepares his studio, scrubs his paintbrushes, and creates the perfect environment for him to work. She has never gone further than the local village. She is sharp-eyed and watchful. But beneath her cool exterior, Joseph senses something simmering. Ettie, Joseph and Tartuffe circle each other throughout the hot, crackling summer, until finally they collide.

 

Praise for Lucy Steeds

Dextrous and powerful . . . a hugely accomplished portrait of ambition and self-fulfilment” Observer

“A sultry, headily perfumed portrait of monstrous male egos and oppressed overlooked women . . . The Artist uncovers its secrets by stealth.” Telegraph

 

Who Wants to Live Forever
Hanna Thomas Uose

The Author

Hanna Thomas Uose was born in Tokyo and grew up in Essex, Birmingham and Oxford. She attended the University of East Anglia and received an MA in Prose Fiction. Prior to that, she worked in campaigns and advocacy. Who Wants to Live Forever, her first book, won the Morley Prize for Unpublished Writers of Colour, was shortlisted for the Space to Write Project (Orion/David Higham Associates/Arvon/Metro) and was selected for the Asian Women Writers mentorship programme. She lives in London.

 

The Book

Yuki and Sam are soulmates.  They are destined to spend the rest of their lives together.  They are supposed to love one another, forever.   But when a miracle drug is created which can extend a human’s life, indefinitely, Sam decides to live forever, rather than love Yuki forever.

What comes next is a time-bending, decades-long, world-building epic set across the globe and narrated by an intersecting cast of characters. Who Wants to Live Forever is the greatest romance you will ever read without the happily ever after.

 

Praise for Hanna Thomas Uose

“A beautifully written book with a genius concept” Louise Hare

BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick

Ordering Books

Join us for a sparkling combination of good food, good books and good company.

Gather over canapes and fizz before sitting down to a delicious lunch while two award winning writers talk about the inspiration behind their latest books.  Treat your clients or catch up with likeminded friends or colleagues.

Bookings

If you would like tickets for a Gliterary Lunch, just click the Book Now button and select the number of places you want to reserve.  For a whole table, order 10 places. If you are booking on behalf of an organisation and need a vat receipt or want an invoice rather than using a payment card, contact [email protected].

Confirmation of your booking will be sent out to you along with information about the menu, table planning and how to pre-order wine and books if required.

If you have any questions at all, please don’t hesitate to call us on 07525 791454 or email [email protected]

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Excellent speakers, food and company - great event, not to be missed.

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