OLGA WOJTAS: Miss Blaine’s Prefect and the Parcel of Rogues

FREE EVENT

Join us for the launch of Olga Wojtas' new book Miss Blaine’s Prefect and the Parcel of Rogues - the sixth book in the much-loved, award-nominated series Murder at Teatime, starring timetravelling Edinburgh librarian, Shona McMonagle. Olga will be in conversation with fellow author Elaine Thomson.

About the book:
Morningside librarian Shona McMonagle is a proud former pupil of the Marcia Blaine School for Girls, and deeply resents a well-known novel she believes has unfairly tarnished its reputation.

In 1788 Edinburgh, the city is celebrating Robert Burns on his second visit to the capital. Burns would much rather be back in Ayrshire with his beloved Jean, but his publisher has him touring society – and his supposed muse, Nancy McLehose, is encouraging him to adopt a more marketable persona.

Shona finds herself caught up helping a teenager, Burns’s ardent admirer Walter Scott, while becoming part of a circle of clever, ambitious women. But when she is framed for the capital crime of housebreaking and condemned to the Tolbooth, she must rely on her ingenuity – and her allies – to clear her name. As events spiral, how will she resolve this muddle without bringing Enlightenment society crashing down?

“Warm and witty … a pure pleasure.” Harriet Tyce

About the author:
Olga Wojtas is an unconventional – and witty – writer of cosy crime fiction whose surrealist humour has been compared to the likes of P.G. Wodehouse, Jasper Fforde and the Marx Brothers. She was born and brought up in Edinburgh, where she attended James Gillespie's High School – the model for the Marcia Blaine School for Girls. Olga won a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award in 2014, and has amassed an impressive following for the Miss Blaine's Prefect series, as well as several award nominations. A journalist for more than 30 years, Olga was Scottish editor of the Times Higher Education Supplement before she began adding creative writing to her portfolio.