Literature

Helen Fry

Atkinson-Pryce Books are going virtual this year and although they are sad not to be able to host events in person there is a great line-up of sessions for you to tune into from the comfort of your own home. A concoction of remarkable personalities, tales of espionage, murder under the microscope and one of Britain's best-loved social commenters. Full details also on our website. Helen Fry Request the free link tomes@atkinson-pryce.co.uk Join us in welcoming Helen Fry, leading expert and historian of WWII British intelligence and espionage. She will introduce us to her thrilling history of MI9- one of the least know agencies in WWll organisation that engineered the escape of allied forces from behind enemy lines. MI9 is avail..

Date: Thursday 15 October

John Cooper Clarke

Atkinson-Pryce Books are going virtual this year and although they are sad not to be able to host events in person there is a great line-up of sessions for you to tune into from the comfort of your own home. We are thrilled to be partnering with Picador Books on the launch of John Cooper Clarke’s long-awaited memoir #IWannaBeYours! John Cooper Clarke Request the free link tomes@atkinson-pryce.co.uk Join John & a series of special guests as he finally lifts the lid on his extraordinary life in this one-off live event - and don't miss your chance to ask John your own questions in the audience Q&A. Click Here for Tickets..

Date: Thursday 15 October

Lin Anderson & Professor James Grieve

Atkinson-Pryce Books are going virtual this year and although they are sad not to be able to host events in person there is a great line-up of sessions for you to tune into from the comfort of your own home. A concoction of remarkable personalities, tales of espionage, murder under the microscope and one of Britain's best-loved social commenters. Full details also on our website. Lin Anderson & Professor James Grieve Request the link £5 a ticket tomes@atkinson-pryce.co.uk Join us for an evening with best-selling crime-writer Lin Anderson in conversation with Professor James Grieve, one of Scotland's most respected forensic pathologists, for a discussion about the science of crime! ..

Date: Monday 19 October

An Exclamation of Poets

Atkinson-Pryce Books are going virtual this year and although they are sad not to be able to host events in person there is a great line-up of sessions for you to tune into from the comfort of your own home. An event exclusive to Atkinson-Pryce for our virtual Biggar Little Festival event programme, join us in the zoom room to hear a ceilidh of poetry from local poets and thespians. The poets will read their own work and the actors a selection of their favourite pieces. The readers will be poets Lindsay McGregor, Neil Paynter and Trish Reith (this trio performed at BLF Festival Club 2019) and thespians Anthony Bowers, Robin Laing and Pauline Lynch. Request the free link tomes@atkinson-pryce.co.uk ..

Date: Tuesday 27 October

Joanna Trollope

Atkinson-Pryce Books are going virtual this year and although they are sad not to be able to host events in person there is a great line-up of sessions for you to tune into from the comfort of your own home. A concoction of remarkable personalities, tales of espionage, murder under the microscope and one of Britain's best-loved social commenters. Full details also on our website. Joanna Trollope Join us, Wee Three Indies, in welcoming Joanna Trollope to a special virtual event celebrating the paperback publication of her latest book, Mum & Dad. Described as one of the most insightful chroniclers and social commenters writing fiction today, this will be a fantastic event. This event is happening via Zoom and you will be sent the..

Date: Thursday 29 October

Landmarks: Hugh MacDiarmid’s Brownsbank

'Landmarks: Hugh MacDiarmid’s Brownsbank' brings together portraits by Sandy Moffat, landscapes by Ruth Nicol and poems by Alan Riach. Hosted by the University of Glasgow, with Biggar and Upper Clydesdale Museum and MacDiarmid’s Brownsbank, the show centres on Hugh MacDiarmid, who lived with his wife Valda in Brownsbank Cottage, in the South Lanarkshire hills, from 1951 until his death in 1978. The cottage is an A-listed building and a cultural treasure house. A live exhibition is proposed for Biggar and Upper Clydesdale Museum in 2021. The artists will be in discussion about their work and MacDiarmid's significance. The narrative of MacDiarmid's later life and work is central to the show, including his encounters, friendships..

Date: Tuesday 24 November