Dan Rhodes and Louise Welsh Launch

Blackwell Bookshop
South Bridge, Edinburgh
6pm
Free but ticketed

A slice of dark humour, with a side of mystery and an extra helping of sumptuous writing.
Not for the faint of heart!

Dan Rhodes hears Little Hands Clapping. A tale of mortifying heartbreak, momentous love, horrifying deaths and delicious apfelkuchen, in which a spider-eating old man and the local doctor form an unlikely alliance, fate unites a heartbroken baker and a euphonium, the most beautiful girl and boy in the village find love, and the town's least effective policeman, with a little help from a dog called Hans, exposes a crime so grotesque that it will shock the nation.

Louise Welsh is Naming the Bones in her thrilling new novel. Knee-deep in the mud of an ancient burial ground, a winter storm raging around him, and at least one person intent on his death: how did Murray Watson end up here? His quiet life in university libraries researching the lives of writers seems a world away, and yet it is because of the mysterious writer, Archie Lunan, dead for thirty years, that Murray now finds himself scrabbling in the dirt on the remote island of Lismore. Loaded with Welsh's trademark wit, insight and gothic charisma, this adventure novel weaves the lives of Murray and Archie together in a tale of literature, obsession and dark magic.

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  Little Hands Clapping - Dan Rhodes - Hardback
  'Little Hands Clapping' brings together the Old Man with the respectable Doctor Ernst Frohlicher, his greedy dog Hans and a cast of grotesque and hilarious townsfolk, all of whose lives are thrown together as the town uncovers a crime so outrageous that it will shock the world.
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  Naming The Bones - Louise Welsh - Paperback
  Knee-deep in the mud of an ancient burial ground, a winter storm raging around him, and at least one person intent on his death: how did Murray Watson end up here? His quiet life in university libraries researching the lives of writers seems a world away.

This event is ticketed, but tickets are FREE. Tickets are available from the front desk at Blackwell. For more information please contact Ann Landmann on 0131 622 8206 or events.edinburgh@blackwell.co.uk