Name: Things Authors Know About
Start: 2024-11-21T19:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-11-21T20:00:00+00:00
Location: Blackwell's Bookshop

Join our panel of bestselling authors as they present their specialist subjects
About this Event

Authors are a lot cleverer than those of us who haven't gone and written a whole book, and a lot of the time, they have written multiple books. Very often as a starting point they will undertake an extensive amount of research, which they will artfully thread into the narrative of their works of fiction, grounding the imagined in reality. In fact, they will sometimes do so much research they inadvertently find themselves becoming an expert in a very specific field.

We are thrilled to be presenting the first evening in our ‘Things Authors Know About’ series, where our panel of tip-top authors have just 10 minutes each to present their Mastermind-worthy specialist subjects.

Join as he talks about his research for , where he delves into the domestic/social history of Edinburgh of the past 120 years, which informed the viewpoint of the spectral cat, Grimalkin, as he prowls unseen amongst the inhabitants of an Edinburgh tenement.

will be telling us all the things she learnt about teeth she discovered in the research for her wryly perceptive debut,, where her character, Ellis’s life has crumbled without warning, and on top of it all is dogged by toothache.

will be speaking about her research into death and the Indigent Funeral Rota that helped her to fathom the dark secrets and sinister discoveries of her three bestselling novels, , and .

, who’s debut novel, , will arrive on our shelves in April 2025, will be chatting about the herbs and cures administered by the 10th Century holy sisters of the Norfolk fens.

Andauthor, , will be regaling us with tales of Edinburgh's glorious, filthly and greedy 18th Century Music Scene; from castrati to gallows ballads.

You are invited along on to the shop on Thursday 21st November at 7pm for a merry evening of things authors didn’t know they needed to know.

This event is the spark of an idea had by, who will be joining us at a later date.

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

Tickets are £5, which will include a glass of something mulled and a mince pie.

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.

Refunds are reviewed on a case-by-case basis, we are unable to offer a refund after the event.

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]