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The Gallery
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Esther Woolfson
Esther is the author of Corvus, which is her own true story of a feathered friend that came into her life and turned it upside down. She also comes to West Kilbride with her poignant and exceptional multi-layered debut novel, Piano Angel, which is set in contemporary New York and Glasgow, and Hungary in the 1950s. |
Wednesday, 29th September
at 7.00 pm |
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Tuesday, 23rd November
at 7.00 pm |
Rab Wilson
Don’t miss award winning Ayrshire poet, Rab Wilson, whose first work was his ‘oversetting’, in Scots, of the famous medieval Persian work The Ruba’iyat of Omar Khayyam, described as “an astonishing feat!” by the late Prof. Philip Hobsbaum.’ His first major collection of poetry, Accent o the Mind, was described in Scotland On Sunday as containing‘poetry to rival the best published in Scotland, or written by a Scot, in the past 30 years’. He has recently published a new collection called Life Sentence. |
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Douglas Thompson
Douglas is the winner of the Grolsch/Herald Question Of Style Award for new writing. Since then he has published short stories in a wide range of magazines and anthologies. His critically acclaimed first novel, Ultrameta, was launched in October 2009 at Glasgow Waterstones, and his second book, Sylvow, will be published in September 2010. Douglas’s readings from Ultrameta have been described as engrossing and hypnotic: a book which pushes at the borders of life and death and the nature of time. |
Tuesday, 14th December
at 7.00 pm |
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Books in the West is your local independant bookshop.
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Not content with merely selling books we will have events such as book launches, author visits, readings by selected authors and poets, oh, and why not add a bit of live music as well.
Details of events will be advertised as they are arranged.
Want a book that's not in stock? With our state of the art ordering system the book you want can be sourced, ordered and available for pick up or sent to your door in a few days.
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Latest »
Books in the West is your local independant bookshop.
News »
Not content with merely selling books we will have events such as book launches, author visits, readings by selected authors and poets, oh, and why not add a bit of live music as well.
Details of events will be advertised as they are arranged.
Want a book that's not in stock? With our state of the art ordering system the book you want can be sourced, ordered and available for pick up or sent to your door in a few days.
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