You can catch a glimpse of the reviews and pictures of the launch on the Freight Books website— And, if you’re looking for a bit of entertainment, you can go to the Book Cafe app, BBC Radio Scotland for the show on 30 April 2012 where both me and Jenni Fagan were talking to Clare English.   I hope readers out there are loving the book.

A great review in the the herald (14.04.12):  ”Ramshackle deserves a place in the bestseller charts: a novel that deals with the primal fear of abandonment and portrays it through a vividly realised 15-year-old girl we can’t help but identify with.” (Alastair Mabbott)

My novel, Ramshackle, will be published in April 2012 by Freight Books, a new Glasgow-based indie press.  The launch is on 26 April, 6:30, at Waterstones on Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow.

Will give a reading at Dundee Ignite Festival, Tuesday May 22nd

I will also be reading at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on 20th August 2012 at 3:30.  And it looks like I’m lined up to do an Unbound event at EIBF too!

If’ you’re a member of a book group or a writing group and you want me to come and give a talk or do a reading, please do get in touch.  Many events are run through the Scottish Book Trust’s visiting writers’ series.

Recent Events:

14 October,  1:00-2:30, Workshop on Memory and Writing at the Mental Health Arts and Film Festival:  http://www.mhfestival.com/

15 October  reading Edna St Vincent Millay at 75th anniversary of the end of the Spanish Civil War http://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/libraries/the-mitchell-library/whats-on/talks/fighting-fascism/Pages/default.aspx

26 October, talking to Creative Writing MLitt students at University of Dundee

3 November, 8 pm, giving a reading at the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh:  http://www.nls.uk/events#nov3

Read at Aye Write Glasgow’s Book Festival on 16 March 2012, at 6pm

Discussed being a writer who teaches creative writing at Write Now 09 March 2012, along with Zoe Strachan and Lesley Glaister.  Voted the conferences most useful panel!