I am beyond delighted to be chatting to the force of nature that is Dave Eggers about his latest novel, Contrapposto, at The Portobello Bookshop next Friday. The book is an incredibly moving look at the nature and meaning of art and life, and I can’t wait to have a blether about it. Sign up here and have your heart and mind expanded.
We are THRILLED to be playing at the Edinburgh International Book Festival this year, having had to postpone our gigs the last two years due to unforeseen circumstances. We are fresh off a triumphant show in The Wirral last week and raring to go. All details here.
If you haven’t got into the Skelfs series yet, this is the insane deal for you. For some inexplicable reason, THE ENTIRE SERIES SO FAR is available on ebook for 99p in total, with only TWO DAYS left on this offer. This amounts to seven years of work and almost half a million words, all for under a quid. Get it here, you won’t regret it.
Just look at all the lovely events I have coming up, talking about Ghost Notes as well as 20 years as a published author. For tickets and more details, go here.
I’m delighted to be appearing at the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival again this year, talking about 20 years of murder and mayhem with old pal Chris Brookmyre. We’re on Friday 24th July at 3pm. It’s always a cracking weekend with a bunch of writer and reader pals, so come and find us.
My LOVELY local independent bookshop – The Portobello Bookshop – are now offering signed and dedicated copies of Ghost Notes, the forthcoming seventh book in my Skelfs series. You can pre-order now and they’ll send them out on publication day, the 13th of August. Just click here and away you go.
It’s been a while, right? But we’re back on the road – can’t wait to get out there again.
17th June, St Mary’s Church, Mold
This is courtesy of The Mold Bookshop, and will be a book event with some acoustic tunes thrown in.
18th June, Heswall Hall
This is thanks to Linghams Booksellers, a book event then a full-band gig.
I am appearing at a bunch of festivals coming up, details below. Would love to see your beautiful, happy face at one of them:
15th May, Paisley Book Festival
With Chris Brookmyre, talking about our combined 50 years as published writers to Val McDermid! Ooft.
6th & 7th June, Motive Crime & Mystery Festival, Toronto
Thrilled to be back at this great festival in Toronto, doing an event and an editing masterclass.
13th June, Borders Book Festival
With Chris Brookmyre again – we might be tempted to play a couple of tunes.
20th June, Capital Crime
In that London with Chris Brookmyre, Sarah Hilary and Chris Merritt.
21st June, Dundee Book Festival
More details on this one soon.
24th July, Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, Harrogate
Chatting to Chris Brookmyre about 20 years of rock ‘n’ roll.
…PLUS there’s a bunch more dates in August and September that haven’t been announced yet.
I had an incredibly in-depth and wide-ranging chat with old pal Ali Braidwood over on his Scots Whay Hae! podcast, where we talked about EVERY SINGLE BOOK I’ve written over 20 years. Ooft. If you have the stomach for it, here it is, or watch us blether on YouTube.
I’ll be chatting to the mighty Val McDermid about the book at my local Portobello Bookshop on Tuesday 21st April. I suspect we’ll talk a lot about music and drugs and maybe seagulls. There will also be another special musical performance, different from last time. You can get tickets here and order special signed and dedicated copies of the novel from the bookshop’s website.
Doug Johnstone 