Name: Kerri Andrews: Nan Shepherd's Correspondence, 1920–80
Start: 2024-11-29T19:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-11-29T20:00:00+00:00
Location: Blackwell's Bookshop

$Kerri Andrews: Nan Shepherd's Correspondence, 1920\u201380$

Join Kerri Andrews as she discusses her new book, Nan Shepherd's Correspondence, 1920–80, with Merryn Glover
About this Event

Recognised as one of the most important voices to emerge from Scotland’s literary ‘Renaissance’ in the 1930s, the full extent of Nan Shepherd’s considerable cultural significance is revealed only in the letters she sent and received over the course of her long life and extraordinary career. Join Kerri Andrews on Friday 29th November at 7pm as she chats to Merryn Glover about her new book that showcases all available letters to and from Shepherd sent over a career of 60 years.

This first ever edition of Nan Shepherd’s correspondence, featuring two hundred and fifty letters, including communications from Neil Gunn, Hugh MacDiarmid, Jessie Kesson, Helen B. Cruickshank, Agnes Mure Mackenzie and many more. Kerri documents Shepherd’s emergence as a celebrated novelist in the 1920s and 30s, her quieter years editing the Aberdeen University Review, and the composition of what would, eventually, be her most famous work, The Living Mountain. With an introduction, annotations and biographical sketches, Nan Shepherd’s Correspondence brings you into Nan Shepherd’s world as one of the most influential literary figures of her generation.

Doors: 6.30pm, event starts: 7pm, please arrive early to secure a good seat.

Tickets are £3 and there is a Ticket & Book option which includes a signed copy of Nan Shepherd's Correspondence, 1920–80.

The bookshop has level access, events are seated and speakers use microphones. If you have any concerns about accessibility, please do get in touch and we will do our best to accommodate your needs.

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For more information or if you would like a signed copy because you can't make it to the event, please contact the Blackwell's events team on 0131 622 8222 or [email protected]