Byres Road Book Festival at Hillhead Library – Miss Austen - Andrea Gibb and Aisling Walsh

Screenwriter Andrea Gibb and director Aisling Walsh will be discussing the process of successfully taking the much-loved novel Miss Austen by Gill Hornby from page to screen. Andrea Gibb is a multi-award-winning Scottish film and TV screenwriter.

Andrea adapted Andrew O’Hagan’s bestselling novel Mayflies in 2022 to rave reviews, winning Best Scripted Television Drama at the Scottish BAFTAs. Her adaptation of Emma Healey’s Elizabeth Is Missing in 2020 garnered her a RTS Scotland award and a BAFTA nomination, and won lead actor Glenda Jackson both an Emmy and a BAFTA. Andrea's other credits include Sanditon, Call the Midwife, and Swallows & Amazons. Dear Frankie and Afterlife won her Scottish Screen Filmmaker of the Year and brought her a BAFTA nomination for Best Outstanding Debut.

Aisling Walsh is a multi-award-winning director and writer. Her 2003 film Song for A Raggy Boy won 30 international awards. She has won a BAFTA, Royal Television Society 

Awards, and an Emmy for her television films Room at the Top, A Poet in New York, and Elizabeth is Missing in which the legendary Glenda Jackson returned to the screen after a 27 year absence. Her 2018 film Maudie won 7 Canadian Screen Awards. Her next film, Lucia about the life of Lucia Joyce will go into production in early 2026.