Byres Road Book Festival at Hillhead Library – Muckle Empire: In Conversation with Michael Pedersen & Stuart Murdoch
- Tickets
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Free - ticket requiredThis 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
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Thursday 25th Sept 2025
7:00pm
- Age
- Adult, 16+ years
- Venue
What do
Edinburgh’s Poet Laureate and Belle & Sebastian’s frontman have in common?
Well, they’ve
both just published their truly stunning debut novels with the revered Faber
& Faber (Muckle Flugga and Nobody’s Empire).
Come and hear
these two literary supremos explore the quirks and kooks of novel writing.
Michael
Pedersen is a prize-winning Scottish poet and author. His prose debut, Boy
Friends, was a Sunday Times Critics' Choice and shortlisted for the Saltire
Scottish Book Awards. He’s unfurled three collections of poetry, the most
recent being The Cat Prince & Other Poems, which won the Books Are My Bag
Readers Award for Best Poetry 2023.
Stuart Murdoch is the lead singer and
songwriter for the iconic Glasgow-based band Belle and Sebastian. In 2012
Murdoch scripted, composed, and directed the movie God Help the Girl. An
outspoken advocate for sufferers of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue
Syndrome, Murdoch is also an Ambassador for the Open Medicine Foundation,
working to promote awareness of ME/CFS.
Chaired by Nicola
Meighan.
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