Chair: Alistair Braidwood

Every day in the news we see people pulling together to overcome obstacles, inspiring fiction writers across the globe. Join Ewan Morrison and Donald S. Murray as they dive into topics of survival, particularly in the darkness that follows unanticipated disaster.

Morrison’s How to Survive Everything explores survivalism and one family trying to make it through an apocalyptic event in tact; Murray’s In a Veil of Mist delves into how a government conspiracy threatens the community of Lewis during the Cold War.

Joining cultural commentator Alistair Braidwood, they will dive into their almost prescient tales on the human spirit, and why exactly we will always fight to survive.

Tickets are FREE. 

All events in The Scottish Books Long Weekend will be recorded and will be uploaded to the Publishing Scotland YouTube channel with closed captions on Tuesday 15 June.

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Ewan Morrison is a multi-award-winning novelist, screenwriter and essayist. His 2019 novel, Nina X, won the Saltire Society Scottish Fiction Book of the Year and is currently being developed as a feature film. His first feature film, an adaptation, was released in five territories in 2016, and was a finalist for four international film awards. American Blackout, a feature length docudrama co-written by Morrison, reached an estimated audience of 30 million viewers. Morrison has also been nominated for three Scottish BAFTAs. 

Donald S Murray is a writer, poet and teacher who now lives in Shetland. He won the Paul Torday Memorial Award (2020) for his first novel, As the Women Lay Dreaming, which centred around the tragic sinking of the Iolaire and the drowning of returning servicemen after World War I. His second novel, In a Veil of Mist, is also based around a 20th-century events in Lewis. Donald's critically acclaimed non-fiction brings to life the culture and nature of the Scottish islands, Highlands and coasts, and he appears regularly on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio Scotland.

Alistair Braidwood runs the Scottish cultural website Scots Whay Hae!, hosts the accompanying podcast, and presents the SWH! Show on CamGlen Radio. He also writes, and reviews, for some of Scotland's more discerning publications.

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This event is part of the Scottish Books Long Weekend 10 to 13 June. For the full programme, see BooksfromScotland.com/scottish-books-long-weekend/.

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