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Gregory Norminton , author of Serious Things and Alan Bissett , author of Death of a Ladies' Man read at the Edinburgh Book Fringe 2009
Gregory Norminton , author of Serious Things and Alan Bissett , author of Death of a Ladies' Man read at the Edinburgh Book Fringe 2009
Tuesday 18 August 2009 at 2.30pm
Venue:
Word Power Books
43-45 West Nicolson Street
Edinburgh
EH8 9DB
Scotland
Admission Free! Donations welcome!
All Welcome!
GREGORY NORMINTON was born in 1976. He studied at Oxford and trained as an actor. His first novel, The Ship of Fools , was published by Sceptre in 2002 and was followed in 2004 by Arts and Wonders , for which he won an Arts Council Writers’ Award. His latest novels include, Ghost Portrait and Serious Things .
"Intelligent and beautifully written" Jessica Mann , Literary Review
ALAN BISSETT is the author of two novels, Boyracers (Polygon, 2001) and The Incredible Adam Spark (Hodder Headline, 2005), and editor of a collection of gothic short stories, Damage Land: New Scottish Gothic Fiction (Polygon, 2001). Both his novels are set in his hometown of Falkirk combine elements of popular culture and socialist politics with Scottish vernacular and idiom. Linguistically influenced by novelists such as James Kelman , Irvine Welsh and Des Dillon , Bissett’s free-flowing prose is also reminiscent of the American Beat writers, in particular Jack Kerouac . His lates novel is Death of a Ladies' Man .
"A remarkable book. An insane, hallucinatory mosaic of sexual dysfunction, humour, pathos and narrative energy." AL Kennedy
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