Name: Elaine Thomson: Hawthorn Book Launch
Start: 2025-09-30T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-09-30T20:30:00+01:00
Location: 176 Bruntsfield Place, EH10 4DF Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Free Event
This is a live, in-person event.
Location: The Edinburgh Bookshop, 176 Bruntsfield Place, EH10 4DF
Join us to celebrate the launch for Elaine Thomson's new novel Hawthorn - the first in a series of ghost stories, set in Scotland at the four supernatural points in the year. Elaine will be in conversation with fellow Edinburgh author Olga Wojtas.

About the book:
Caithness, October 1871.
The Ordnance Survey are charting Scotland's most remote north-easterly county, a bleak landscape of endless moorland and lonely crofts. When a strange vision leads cartographer Robert Sutherland out onto the moor, an accident leaves him inches from death. He is taken to Leask House, to recuperate under the care of Mrs Sinclair and her beautiful daughter Isabel.
At first, Robert thinks the dreadful visions that plague him at Leask House are the result of the laudanum he has been prescribed. But as events take ever stranger and more terrifying turns, Robert begins to wonder whether his presence at Leask House is really a coincidence at all.
Someone - or something - has summoned him here.
And they don't intend for him to leave.

About the Author:
Elaine Thomson's work has been long listed for the CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger, and shortlisted for the Saltire Prize, the Scottish Arts Council First Book Award and the William McIlvanney Crime Book of the Year Award. She has a PhD in the history of medicine and tries to fit as much medical history into her books as possible. Elaine works at Edinburgh Napier University by day and writes by night. Writing as E.S. Thomson, she is the author of the Jem Flockhart medical historical crime series, published by Constable. Hawthorn is the first in a series of four ghost stories, set in Scotland at the four supernatural points in the year: samhain, midwinter, beltane and midsummer.