James Meek
"[It] has the strangeness and clarity of a dream. This is historical fiction that transcends the genre - as intense as a thriller, imagined on an epic scale."
The Times on People's Act of Love
Chaired by Colin Waters, Assistant Editor Scottish Review of Books
James Meek is an award-winning journalist and author who grew up in Dundee. His most recent novel, The People's Act of Love (Canongate, 2005), was longlisted for the the Man Booker Prize last year. He has also published two novels, Mcfarlane Boils The Sea and Drivetime, and two collections, Last Orders and The Museum Of Doubt. He contributed to the acclaimed Rebel Inc anthologies The Children Of Albion Rovers and The Rovers Return. He has worked as a newspaper reporter since 1985 and lived in the former Soviet Union from 1991 to 1999 and now lives in London, where he writes for the Guardian, the London Review of Books and Granta. In 2004 his reporting from Iraq and about Guantanamo Bay won a number of British and international awards.
Thursday 26 October 2006
Causewayside, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
