McLellan Book Festival: Sally Magnusson

New for 2024 - the McLellan Book Festival. To run alongside Wee Mac Children’s Book Festival and the McLellan Arts Festival.

Sally Magnusson is a Scottish author and broadcaster. After focussing on journalism and non-fiction, including the Sunday Times bestseller Where Memories Go, she moved into fiction with the publication in 2018 of her debut novel, The Sealwoman’s Gift, about the experience of a seventeenth century Icelandic woman abducted into slavery; it was shortlisted for 6 literary prizes. Her second novel, The Ninth Child, set during the building of the great Loch Katrine waterworks in the 1850s, was published in March 2020 to critical acclaim.

Her third novel, Music in the Dark [https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/sally-magnusson-2/music-in-the-dark/9781529345933/], published by John Murray Press in May 2023, explores the Highland Clearances and their aftermath through the experiences of the women who tried to resist eviction in the township of Greenyards in Strathcarron in 1854. The action takes place over one night in July 1884, in a tenement room-and-kitchen in the town of Rutherglen near Glasgow but roams back over generations, as a displaced, working-class Highlandwoman bearing old injuries opens her mind to the man who came looking for lodgings.

Music in the Dark was described by The Scotsman as having “what Ford Madox Ford thought the mark of a great novel: the ability to make you think and feel at the same time; and you can’t or shouldn’t ask for more than that from a work of art.”.

Visit Sally Magnusson's website here [https://sallymagnusson.com/].

See the full McLellan Book Festival Full Programme on our website here [https://www.arrantheatreandarts.co.uk/mclellan-book-festival].

Also follow us on the McLellan Book Festival facebook page here for regular updates.

Pricing

We offer a range of pricing for savings on those wishing to attend multiple events across the McLellan Book Festival and/or the McLellan Arts Festival:

£12 per McLellan Book Festival event or

£40 for a McLellan Book Festival Weekend Pass (click here to purchase) giving you access to all of the McLellan Book Festival events or

£50 for a McLellan Festival Season Ticket (click here to purchase) which gives you access to all of the McLellan Book Festival events AND all the McLellan Arts Festival events except Scottish Ensemble, National Theatre of Scotland and poetry workshop

More info about the McLellan Arts Festival is available here [https://www.arrantheatreandarts.co.uk/mclellan-festival].