Suffragette Stories - Ajay Close & Lucy Ribchester
Gaelic Evening with Jo MacDonald and Gillebride MacIlleMhaoil
Suffragette Stories - Ajay Close & Lucy Ribchester
Tue 4 Oct · 7pm · £ 5 · Dick Institute
Ajay Close , writer and award-winning journalist , will discuss her acclaimed historical novel , A Petrol Scented Spring which tells the story of the Scottish suffragettes and the prison doctor who force-fed them . A Petrol Scented Spring is a riveting novel of repression , jealousy and love , and the struggle for women ’ s emancipation .
Ajay will be joined by Lucy Ribchester whose entertaining debut novel , The Hourglass Factory is set in 1912 . London is in turmoil and the suffragette movement is reaching fever pitch , but for broke Fleet Street tomboy Frankie George , just getting by in the cut-throat world of newspapers is hard enough . Frankie is drawn into a world of tricks , society columnists , corset fetishists , suffragettes and circus freaks .
A fascinating insight into one of the most compelling stories in the history of the women ’ s suffrage movement .’ - THE TIMES ( A Petrol Scented Spring )
Rollicking whodunit adventure … terrific ’ – IAN RANKIN ( The Hourglass Factory )
Gaelic Evening with Jo MacDonald and Gillebride MacIlleMhaoil
Wed 5 Oct · 7pm · £ 5 Auchinleck Library
Join Jo MacDonald and Gillebride MacIlleMhaoil for an evening of song and reflections on the poems and songs of the Campbells of South Lochboisdale . The iconic Gaelic love song , A Pheigi a Ghraidh , is the best known of the Campbell family ’ s compositions but , thanks to Jo MacDonald ’ s research , many previously unpublished poems and songs have been brought together in a new book . An evening not to be missed !
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