Gliterary Lunches > Events > Glasgow > Glasgow Gliterary Lunch, May 2025
29th May 202512:00 pm - 3:00 pm
The Grand Central, Glasgow
Speakers:
Clare Leslie Hall & Emma Cowing
Join and Clare Leslie Hall and Emma Cowing at the Glasgow Gliterary Lunch - a sparkling combination of good food, good books and good company. Perfect for client entertaining and meeting up with friends.
Clare Leslie Hall is a novelist and journalist who lives in the wilds of Dorset, England, with her family. Under the name Clare Empson, she published two domestic noir thrillers, Him and Mine, that were published in the UK and Germany. Broken Country is a nod to The Go Between, featuring a forbidden love affair with catastrophic repercussions.
It was a secret affair until it was a public scandal.
Everyone in the village said nothing good would come of Gabriel’s return. And as Beth looks at the man she loves on trial for murder, she can’t help thinking they were right.
Beth was seventeen when she first met Gabriel. Over that heady summer, he made her think and feel and see differently. When Gabriel left to become the person his mother expected him to be, she was broken.
It was Frank who picked up the pieces and together they built a home. Watching her husband and son, she had felt sure that, after everything, this was the life she was supposed to be leading.
But when Gabriel comes backafter ten years, their connection is instant. All Beth’s certainty about what she wants crumbles. She knows people could get hurt. But how can she resist a second chance at first love?
Evocative, sensitive and compelling . . . Fires directly at the heart and hits the mark. Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing
Emma Cowing is an award-winning journalist and has written for The Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday, Guardian Weekend Magazine, Spectator and Scotsman. A former Feature Writer of the Year at the Scottish Press Awards, and two-time Interviewer of the Year, she holds an Ochberg Fellowship in Journalism and Trauma at Columbia Journalism School in New York, for her work covering the war in Afghanistan. She was shortlisted for the 2023 Cheshire Novel Prize, and longlisted for both the 2023 Bath Novel Award and Blue Pencil First Novel Award. The Show Woman is her first novel.
1910. With the disappearance of her mother and the sudden death of her father, Lena instantly loses any security she has within the circus she has known all her life. She’s advised to sell the carousel and look for a husband, or a factory job… until flame-haired Violet, ‘the greatest trapeze artist that ever lived’, suggests they go it alone with an all-female circus act.
With her outspoken ways and her refusal to marry, Violet is as much an outcast as Lena. What do they have to lose? Thrust into a harsh and dangerous world that treats them with suspicion, disdain and even violence, they must forge their own path in search of freedom, security, and love.
Suspenseful, authentic, sexy and uplifting. Beautiful writing plunges the reader into the showgrounds of Edwardian Scotland, sights, sounds, smells and all. Author, Erin Kelly
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]
Excellent speakers, food and company - great event, not to be missed.
Daniela Gardiner, Panasonic