Tom F. Cunningham presents an illustrated talk about his Scottish
bestseller, Your Fathers the Ghosts, at Dennistoun Library and Learning
Centre, 2a Craigpark, Glasgow on Tuesday 19 February at 2.30pm.
Tom F. Cunningham is giving a talk about his latest book, Your Fathers the
Ghosts at The Old Glasgow Club, Adelaide’s, 209 Bath Street, Glasgow
Thursday the 11th of September. Doors open at 7pm, talk starts at 7.30pm.
FEBRUARY 2008 EVENTS
(1) TUESDAY 5TH FEBRUARY, 10:30AM ONWARDS
LARGS Probus Club, Brisbane Hotel, Largs.
(2) MONDAY 11TH FEBRUARY, 7:30PM ONWARDS
MOUNT KIRK LADIES GUILD, Mount Kirk Church Hall GREENOCK.
(3) THURSDAY 14th FEBRUARY, AFTERNOON EVENT.
ELDERSLIE LIBRARY, PAISLEY, RENFREWSHIRE.
(4) TUESDAY 19TH FEBRUARY, 3:00PM ONWARDS
GREENOCK & DISTRICT GENTS PROBUS CLUB, Old West Church, (Pirie Hall), Campbell Street, Greenock.
(5) WEDNESDAY 20th FEBRUARY, 7:30PM
THE RPOAS, GLASGOW BRANCH, CROWNE PLAZA HOTEL, GLASGOW.
(6) THURSDAY 21st FEBRUARY, 7:30PM ONWARDS
TRANENT LIBRARY, TRANENT, EAST LOTHIAN.
Thursday 22nd November, 2007 at 6:30pm
Border Books
Buchanan street
Glasgow
Tel no 0141222 7700 (William)
Book launch & a blether with Harry Morris
aka Harry the Polis and the latest publication
in the series, No 5,’Aye, That Will Be Right!‘
Harry will be signing his books at the event.
Harry Morris, author of the five Harry the Polis books, full of stories about the lighter side of the police force, has a whole slew of events coming up. Here are details for them all. Whether it’s tonight or next year, you should try and catch him speaking:
Thursday 22nd November, 2007 at 6:30pm
Border Books
Buchanan street
Glasgow
Tel no 0141222 7700 (William)
Book launch & a blether with Harry Morris
aka harry the Polis and the latest publication
in the series, No 5, ‘Aye, That Will Be Right!‘
Harry will be signing his books at the event.
Tuesday 30th October 2007, 6:30PM
Lochee Book Frestival
Lochee Library, 47 High Street,
Dundee, DD2 3AU.
Contact: Joan Rodgers, 01382 431835
Tickets still available
Friday 9th November 2007, 2 - 3:30PM
East Ayrshire Book Festival
Galston Library, Henrietta Street, Ayrshire.
Contact: Louise Williams, 01563 554300
Sold out
There’s two exciting author events coming up at the Leith Festival next month. The first is Reg McKay, bestselling author of Villains and The Last Godfather.
Reg McKay event
Fri 08 June 07 07.30 PM to 10.00 PM
Lambs House, Burgess Street (map)
£4
And the day after that, Stephen Thompson, author of Meet Me Under the Westway is appearing and, excitingly, the event will feature dramatisations of some scenes from the book.
Desperately Trying To Make Your Mark?
Thu 07 June 07 07.30 PM to 10.00 PM
Lambs House
Burgess Street (map here)
£4
Go to the Leith Festival website or call the box office on 0845 458 9709 for more details of events, and be sure to check the CHROMA site to keep up with Meet Me Under the Westway news.
chromabooks.com has launched! If you haven’t seen the new web home of the CHROMA imprint, you should get over there right now. There’s a present waiting for you if you do!
Celtic fansite Keep the Faith have reviewed Dan Doyle: The Life and Death of a Wild Rover and seem pleasantly enthused, calling it, amongst other nice things, an ‘excellent and delightful work’ and ‘fascinating reading about a man who played his part in shaping Celtic’. Thank you, Keep the Faith!
You can read the review here and for more information or to buy the book, go here.
Maureen Reynolds has a signing coming up for her new book, The Sunday Girls.
Click the flier for a larger version:
If you’re going to be in Dundee, you should come along!
We are delighted to announce that Australian and New Zealand rights for our first CHROMA title, The Last Book You Read by Ewan Morrison, have been sold to UWA Press (University of Western Australia) and will feature this autumn on their literary imprint, New Writing.
And there is more exciting CHROMA news! Meet Me Under the Westway by Stephen Thompson, to be published in May, has already received two wonderful pre-publication reviews:
Mark Farley, Waterstone’s Notting Hill Gate
Rating: ****
This is a great satire about British theatre and the desire of thritysomethings of all creative endeavours. Following a budding theatre group of promising playwrights in their quest to stage their play on the second stage of a top Central London theatre. Written with charming, blokey candour and reminiscent of such novels as “High Fidelity” and “Starter for Ten”, it perfectly encapsulates the ambitious and catty world of British theatre with (in our case and in Edinburgh) local charm and references. Those who (like me) know nothing about the inner workings of this creative medium and industry will be sympathising and will grow to a certain sense of empathy and desire for every turn of the page.
The author, Stephen Thompson, has used his experience as a journalist and lecturer in Creative Writing at Birkbeck College to great effect in this story of Jem, a would-be playwright. The reader, especially any aspiring writer, will appreciate the way the author engages our sympathy for Jem immediately. We follow his experiences and progress in a very contemporary London setting through to the Edinburgh Festival.
The humour and perseverance are propelled along by some very witty dialogue. Talent is essential but luck even more so and eventually Jem does obtain some measure of success. A book which will have wide appeal because of the humour and the insight it gives on how to get work published.
Personal read: ****