Allan Guthrie & Ian Rankin & Louise Welsh

A special series of three Bridge Readings to tie-in with Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature’s first city-wide reading campaign celebrating Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped.

Chaired by Eric Massie

A panel of literary experts discussed the influence of Stevenson’s gothic and criminal themes in Scottish literature. Three of Scotland’s best crime writers, Allan Guthrie, Ian Rankin and Louise Welsh, discussed the notion of the Tartan Noir genre and the ‘Stevenson effect’.

Thursday 1 February 2007

MacDonald Road Library, Edinburgh

Allan Guthrie's website

Ian Rankin's website

Louise Welsh at Canongate


"The Bridge Readings is a great, rolling mini-festival of year-long literary quality and absolutely not to be missed - long may they continue." IAIN BANKS

 

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