Angus Peter Campbell Bridge Reading
Augustine United Church
George IV Bridge, Edinburgh
7pm
Free, booking required
Angus Peter Campbell is the author of the only Gaelic work to be in the The List Magazine’s 100 Best Scottish Books with his seminal An Oidhche Mus Do Sheòl Sinn (The Night Before We Sailed), which was voted in at number eight. A native Gaelic speaker, he’ll be reading in Scots and Gaelic and from his only work in English to date, Invisible Islands. This is a rare chance to hear this Saltire Book of the Year winner reading in three languages and discussing his work.
To book your free place, please phone 0131 623 3845 or e-mail: events@nls.uk
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Add to BasketInvisible Islands - Paperback -
£8.99
'The Invisible Islands' is a collection of 21 stories, each illuminating a specific island in the mythic Invisible Islands archipelago. The central theme is what connects landscape, culture and tradition. -
Add to BasketAn Oidhche Mus Do Sheòl Sinn - Paperback -
£8.99
The story follows a young boy from South Uist. As he crouches by the edge of the loch, he is deciding whether or not to throw the stone-skiffler he's holding. It is 1913 and his two older brothers are down on the machair already deciding to throw their dice and head for the trenches.