Top Picks

Authors top picks for the 2025 festival

Margaret McDonald

Multi-award winning author of 'Glasgow Boys' shares her festival top picks.

Gaza - The Story of a Genocide: Ahmed Masoud and Shareef Sarhan

Childless by Choice: Helen Taylor with Lesley McDowell

Who Will Be Remembered Here - Queer Spaces in Scotland: Mae Diansangu, Louise Welsh, Lewis Hetherington with Carrie Marshall

Universality and Alive in the Merciful Country: Natasha Brown and A L Kennedy with Gabriella Bennett

Waterstones Ones to Watch: LGBTQI+ Fiction

Only Here Only Now, Glasgow Boys and Paperboy: Tom Newlands, Margaret McDonald and Callum McSorley with Martin Stewart

Mitchell Library
Sunday 9 November

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Top Picks

Margaret McDonald

Top 5 picks

Gaza - The Story of a Genocide: Ahmed Masoud and Shareef Sarhan

Childless by Choice: Helen Taylor with Lesley McDowell

Who Will Be Remembered Here - Queer Spaces in Scotland: Mae Diansangu, Louise Welsh, Lewis Hetherington with Carrie Marshall

Universality and Alive in the Merciful Country: Natasha Brown and A L Kennedy with Gabriella Bennett

Waterstones Ones to Watch: LGBTQI+ Fiction

Only Here Only Now, Glasgow Boys and Paperboy: Tom Newlands, Margaret McDonald and Callum McSorley with Martin Stewart

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