The Big Scottish Book Club is back with a new series and new format!
Damian Barr is joined by special guests to talk literature & life with a big dose of insight and laughs!
The Big Scottish Book Club is an IWC (a Banijay UK company) production for BBC Scotland. The new eight-part series will start on the BBC Scotland channel and BBC iPlayer on Sunday 30th October at 10pm.
Click HERE for more info. You can also still enjoy series three on BBC iPlayer.
Read MoreWe are very sorry, but An Evening with Miss Marple has been postponed. The event was due to take place tomorrow, Tues 13th Sept, but will now be held at a later date.
The British Library has cancelled all events until after the Queen's funeral.
We will let you know as soon as a new date has been confirmed. All ticket holders will be contacted by the British Library.
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Join Damian on the 13th September for an in-person and online Salon at the British Library, as the Literary Salon launches Marple: Twelve New Stories, a brand-new collection of original tales penned by some of the world’s most acclaimed and bestselling female writers. Each story takes inspiration from Agatha Christie’s classic originals to feature a new mystery for Miss Marple to solve. As ever, she knows more than she appears to.
Damian Barr will be joined by contributing authors Lucy Foley and Kate Mosse, as well as historian, presenter and Christie biographer Lucy Worsley. The evening will feature exclusive readings, expert insights, and special appearances from Marple super-fans, celebrating the incomparable, enigmatic spirt of Jane Marple and her legendary creator Agatha Christie.
Tickets start at £10 for the in-person event (concessions are available) and £5 online. A ticket and book bundle will also be available and books will be on sale on the night. The box office and bar open at 6pm, theatre doors at 6.45pm and the Salon will start at 7pm. Lucy Foley, Kate Mosse and Lucy Worsley will also be signing books after the event.
See you there!
Join us online as we celebrate the launch of Kate Mosse’s touching memoir An Extra Pair of Hands.
This heart-warming book shines a light on the joys and challenges of being a carer and shows how even the smallest act of caregiving is one of the greatest acts of love. Kate will be interviewed by journalist, broadcaster and editor Sam Baker.
An Extra Pair of Hands sees Kate shift focus from historical fiction to personal history. Here she tells her own story - of finding herself as a carer in middle age: first, helping her heroic mother care for her beloved father through Parkinson's, then supporting her mother in widowhood, and finally as ‘an extra pair of hands’ for her 90-year-old mother-in-law. If you follow Kate on Twitter, you’ll already know beloved Granny Rosie, who has become a social media sensation in her own right!
Read MoreBIG NEWS! Please welcome our new Guest Hosts!
We’re introducing a gorgeous line-up of brilliant Guest Hosts so we can put on more Salons and make the conversation around books even bigger, even more inclusive and even more joyful!
I’m delighted to announce that Anthony Anaxagorou, Sam Baker, Alex Clark, Sara Collins, Natalie Haynes, Alexandra Heminsley, Paul McVeigh, Sarah Perry and Sathnam Sanghera are all joining Salon! They’re all very different but equally brilliant and will be hosting Salons online and in-person (when we can). They each bring their own unique story and I can’t wait to hear them.
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