Jane Harris to speak at Strathclyde Author Event

Doug Johnstone, novelist and Keith Wright Fellow at the University of Strathclyde, has organised another event in February for all word lovers; this one is free, too! Please come. Don't be put off by the unrepentant ugliness of the building. Jane Harris wil be speaking about her latest novel, 'Gillespie and I,' among other things.

5pm, Monday 13th February 2012
Room LT509, Livingstone Tower
26 Richmond Street, Glasgow
Free entry, refreshments provided


Jane Harris is a British writer of fiction and screenplays. Her latest
novel, Gillespie and I, was published to critical acclaim in the UK by
Faber and Faber on the 5th of May 2011. Her first novel The
Observations was shortlisted for The Orange Prize for Fiction 2007 and
has been published in over 20 territories worldwide. In France, The
Observations was shortlisted for the Prix du Premier Roman Etranger in
2009. In the USA, The Observations won the Book of the Month Club’s
First Fiction Prize in 2007.

Waterstone’s chose Jane as one of its 25 Authors for the Future and in
2007 she was also nominated for the British Book Awards Newcomer of
the Year and for the Southbank Show/Times Breakthrough Award. In 2011,
Richard and Judy chose The Observations as one of their 100 Books of
the Decade.




** You can follow her on Twitter; perhaps you will even work up the nerve to ask her why she calls herself @blablafishcakes, and why she spells 'blah' without the 'h'.