THURSDAY 17th APRIL, 6.30pm

Join Gillian Galbraith at Blackwell to celebrate the launch of her second novel Where The Shadow Falls and the return of Edinburgh detective Alice Rice. After her first literary outing in Blood In The Water, DS Rice is back to investigate a grisly murder in the New Town, which leads her into the murky underworld of environmental developers and protesters…

Gillian Galbraith will be appearing in-store to sign copies of Where The Shadow Falls.

THURSDAY 24th APRIL, 6.30pm

Blackwell are delighted to welcome Barrington Stoke publishers and BS author Gill Arbuthnot for a discussion of their mission to create enjoyable, unpatronising books for dyslexic, struggling or simply reluctant readers.

Gill will talk about how she goes about writing a book that will grip her readers and introduce them to the pleasures of reading but we hope above all to widen the discussion and answer your questions and share your own stories and tips.

THURSDAY 8th MAY, 6.30pm

Edinburgh is a city that produces many crime writers from all walks of life, but in the Mulgray Twins we have perhaps one of the genre’s most unlikely incarnations … The first twins in the world to write a novel together in English, Helen and Morna Mulgray retired from teaching and decided to create heroine DJ Smith and her sniffer cat Gorgonzola. Their first novel No Suspicious Circumstances was acclaimed as having “the kind of quirky charm and originality that made Alexander McCall Smith’s No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series a best seller” (Daily Record).

We are delighted to welcome them to Blackwell to discuss their new title Under Suspicion and to tell us about what it’s like to be so inseparable you do everything together, including writing!

All events take place at Blackwell Bookshop, 53-62 South Bridge, Edinburgh.

To reserve your FREE tickets for any of the above events, or for further information, please contact Vanessa Garden or collect from the front desk of the shop.

T: 0131 622 8222

E: vanessa.garden@blackwell.co.uk,

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