Hillhead Library

Byres Road Book Festival at Hillhead Library – Rodge Glass and Ross Wilcock

Byres Road Book Festival at Hillhead Library – Rodge Glass and Ross Wilcock
Tickets
Free - ticket required
This event is run by an external organisation but takes place in a Glasgow Life venue. Glasgow Life does not take any responsibility for this event including the communication of any cancellations or rearrangements, or the ticket sales for this event.
Dates and times
Sunday 28th Sept 2025
4:30pm
Age
18+ years

In conversation with Rodge Glass and Ross Wilcock on grief, life lessons and memoir writing.

Rodge Glass is the author of eight published books. These include the novels No Fireworks, Hope for Newborns and Bring Me the Head of Ryan Giggs, the collection Stories for the EasyJet Generation, a graphic novel, Dougie’s War: A Soldier’s Story, and Alasdair Gray: A Secretary’s Biography, which won a Somerset Maugham Award for Nonfiction.

Rodge’s recent work includes Michel Faber: The Writer & his Work (2023) and Joshua in the Sky: A Blood Memoir (2024), a chapter of which, ‘On the Covenant’, won the Anne Brown Essay Prize for Scotland.


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