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An Evening With Angie Spoto and Lorraine Wilson

Thursday 31st October 2024
19:00 at Waterstones, Glasgow - Argyle Street

The Bone Diver (Hardback)

Angie Spoto

We Are All Ghosts in the Forest (Hardback)

Lorraine Wilson

We are joined for Halloween by two Scottish masters of the macabre, Angie Spoto and Lorraine Wilson, as they launch their latest titles, The Bone Diver and We Are All Ghosts In The Forest!

Two novels of declining times and failing worlds, and the desperate lengths and terrifying bargains women make to survive and thrive in them, Spoto and Wilson deliver brilliant unsettling novels that speak to our times in powerful ways. Together they will discuss their books, the Scottishness of the weird, and more, in a Halloween literary event to chill the bones!

The Bone Diver

Kier Sealgair is the only daughter of a family of seal hunters. But as catches decline and the seals are dying the seal hunters and fishermen of the small town are struggling. Kier cannot kill and in hard times she is a burden to her family, especially now that her father is ailing. Her only friend is Fie, son of the town's tailor, living with the knowledge that his father hoped for a daughter.

Near the town, high on the cliffs, is Erskine Manor. Servants come from the manor to the town to buy supplies but the family is never seen and rumours abound about them. Did the Lord kill the Lady? Are the five towers of the manor for the five daughters? Are the children of the manor even human, or are they taloned and spine-toothed monsters set to roam the overgrown walled grounds?

And then one day a woman arrives in Fie's shop wanting an impossibly expensive dress for one of her daughters. She can only be Lady Erskine. And later, on the rocky shore Kier meets the same woman who offers her a bargain, one that could save Kier's father.

We Are All Ghosts In The Forest

When the internet collapsed, it took the world with it, leaving its digital ghosts behind – and they are hungry. Former photojournalist Katerina fled the overrun cities to the relative safety of her grandmother’s village on the edge of a forest, where she lives a solitary life of herbal medicine and beekeeping.

When a wordless boy finds her in the marketplace with nothing but her name in his pocket, her curiosity won’t allow her to turn him away. But haunting his arrival are rumours of harvest failure and a rampant digital disease stirring up the ghosts, and the mood in the village starts to sour.

Accused of witchcraft, Katerina and Stefan escape into the forest, searching for his missing father and the truth behind the disease. If there is a cure, Katerina alone might find it, but first she must find the courage to trust others – because the ghosts that follow her aren’t just digital.

Waterstones, Glasgow - Argyle Street

Thursday 31st October 2024
19:00

£20 with The Bone Diver, £22 with We Are All Ghosts In The Forest

£5 for General Admission

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