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BOOKER Prize winner Douglas Stuart and novelists Maggie O’Farrell and Kate Mosse are among the writers who will appear as a top Scottish book festival moves online this year. The Aye Write festival, usually held at the Mitchell Library in Glasgow in March, was cancelled in 2020 due to the pandemic and postponed this year due to the ongoing restrictions. It will now take place online over two weekends in May and will feature more than 100 writers from Scotland and around the world. The line-up also includes broadcaster Andrew Marr talking about the books that made him, radio and TV presenter Nicky Campbell on his adoption memoir, musician-turned-writer Tracey Thorn and musician Richard Thompson. Monique Roffey, who won the 2020 Costa Book of the Year for The Mermaid Of Black
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The Fiction team always have their heads stuck in books, so we thought we’d tell you what we’re all reading outside of working time at the minute.
Since we’re still in lockdown, we’ve had more time to watch TV, too . . . this is why we all have terrible eyesight!
Abbie
I’m reading the book club book, “Girl A” by Abigail Dean, and watching Marvel’s “WandaVision” on Disney+!
“WandaVision” is a mind-bending TV show where nothing is quite what it seems. You probably need to have watched the Marvel Cinematic Universe films for the context . . .