We've organised a series of free events in the Arlington Baths for Book Week Scotland, including several talks featuring a few of our talented members!

There will be book sales and signings at all the events, and a short tour of the Baths at 6pm each day.

Book Week Scotland is a nationwide celebration of books and reading from Monday 27 November to Sunday 3 December 2017.

Join us throughout the week to meet our authors, enjoy a chat and relax with a drink in our cosy bar!

NEW EVENT!

Here Be Dragons: delving into Scotland’s dark places and wild side

Explore the wild and dangerous landscapes of the Highlands and the darker side of the Scottish psyche.

At this event Charles E McGarry will introduce us the world of supernatural sleuth Leo Moran in his debut novel The Ghost of Helen Addison.

As Leo seeks to use his psychic insights to solve the murder of a young woman, he exchanges the familiarity of Glasgow’s West End for the foreboding but beautiful Loch Dhonn, based on real-life Loch Awe.

Tuesday 28 November, 6.30pm

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Event chaired by Martin Greig of Backpage 

Women, Water and Wheels

Jenny Landreth, author of Swell. A Waterbiography - shortlisted for William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2017  - and The Guardian swimming blog, will take us through the story of the 'swimming suffragettes': the determined women who demanded equal rights in the water, threw off their restrictive costumes and became Olympic champions.

Glasgow Women’s Library will showcase a few of the many items from its archive related to sporting women; from 19th century women who found freedom through cycling, to the 2014 Commonwealth Games and today’s fast-growing female-dominated sport of roller derby.

Wednesday 29 November, 6.30pm

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Discussion to be led by Karen Mailly-Watt and Rachael Purse, collectively known as The History Girls Frae Scotland.

Imagining the worst of times: why do we love an apocalypse?

Join Louise Welsh, one of Scotland’s best novelists (and Arlington Baths member), to explore morality in the worst of times. What would it be like to survive the plague? Could you make a good life in a brutal new future? That’s the fate of the few survivors of a worldwide epidemic that wipes out billions of lives in Louise’s terrifying Plague Times trilogy, completed by No Dominion published this year.

Thursday 30 November, 6.30pm

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Always wanted to write a novel? Here’s how to kickstart that book!

Have you always dreamt of writing a book? But are you unsure about starting? Best-selling novelist, children’s author and columnist Fiona Gibson (an Arlington Baths member) is here to help you kick-start your writing ambition. In this two-hour session, she’ll gently lead you through practical exercises designed to get you started and give you the confidence you need to carry on. Fiona will share her tips and advice on how to set the boundaries and invest the time in your own creativity.

Numbers are limited for this event, so book soon!

Friday 1 December, 3pm to 5pm

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First novel journey: from Japan to broom cupboard to Richard and Judy

Glasgow-based author Jackie Copleton published her first novel two years ago inspired by the years she spent in Japan in the 1990s. A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding is a heart-rending story of mothers and daughters, love, lies and family secrets set in the city of Nagasaki. Just a few weeks after publication her novel was selected for two of the biggest and best-known UK book groups: Simon Mayo’s Radio Two Book Club and the Richard and Judy Book Club, and was longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction.

Friday 1 December, 6.30pm

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Millennial Munros – A postman’s record-breaking round

Join Glasgow postie Charlie Campbell, who got motivated, got fit and completed an unprecedented endurance event. With the help of his mum and some mates, he broke the world record for a continuous self-propelled round of all 284 Munros, Scotland’s mountains over 3,000 feet. He averaged nearly six Munros every day, and cycled or swam between them. Anyone who has done just one Munro in a day will know how big a deal this was.

Saturday 2 December, 6.30pm

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All the events will take place in the Arlington Baths.

Find out more about Book Week Scotland.