The Bridge Readings: Laura Hird
National Library of Scotland
George IV Bridge, Edinburgh
7pm
Free, booking required
Ahead of the publication of her new short story collection Hope and Other Urban Tales, Laura Hird reads from a selection of her writing and discusses her work with the audience at the National Library of Scotland.
Contact: email events@nls.uk or Tel. 0131 623 3845
-
Add to BasketHope And Other Urban Tales: And Other Urban Tales - Paperback -
£9.99
Set in the low-rent areas of Edinburgh, Hird's tales of urban despair and dysfunction are gritty, bleak and darkly funny. Yet the possibility of hope, always just out of reach, unifies this collection, conveying that just as circumstances can reveal darkness in 'good people', so seemingly irredeemable characters can harbour humanity.
Thursday 17th August 2006
