Story Café Special: Donna Moore on Historical Crime Fiction

Be nourished over lunchtime with stories and poems from women writers around the world, as we rediscover the joy of being read to.  So far this year we’ve had our wanderlust unleashed with tales of St Kilda, our appetites whetted by banquets on Indian train journeys and our funny bones tickled by the weird and wonderful world of bookshops. Our Story Café Specials are an intimate way of hearing some of the freshest voices from Scottish writing, so top up your cuppa from our big, bottomless teapot, get yourself comfy and become a part of it all.

Story Café is on Thursdays 8th June to 29th June, 27th July, 3rd August, 24th August to 31st August, 12.30pm to 2.30pm, £2/Free

GWL’s very own literary lioness, Donna Moore, will be talking about her PhD, ‘Sources and Silences’, a series of three historical crime fiction novellas set in the 1870s, 1890s and 1910s, telling the stories of grandmother, mother and granddaughter. She will be reading from one of the novellas which is partly set in Glasgow’s Lock Hospital – a place where women with syphilis were locked away to be cured and reformed.

Find out about all our Story Cafés this Summer here.

Booking

This event is open to all (16+). There is no need to book. This event costs £2 full price and you can pay on the day. We offer subsidised and/or free places for students, people on a low income, unemployed or those in receipt of benefit and Friends of GWL.