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Friday 10 May
12 noon–1.00pm
Dunedin Public Art Gallery ​
Free

Murder with McIlvanney










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Liam McIlvanney has been described as a master of Tartan noir. His latest novel The Quaker was crowned Scottish Crime Book of the Year in 2018. Based on the unsolved Bible John murders that shocked Glasgow in the 1960s (which McIlvanney describes as “a kind of West of Scotland equivalent of the Kennedy 
assassination”) the book takes its own fictional trajectory while capturing the menace and soot-grimy atmosphere that prevailed in Glasgow at that time. McIlvanney will talk with Steve Braunias (author of The Scene of the Crime) about mixing murderous fact with fiction, how to write a good ghost and other dark matters.
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Please note that space is limited so admission cannot be guaranteed.
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