Bookface Sip & Swap with Graeme Armstrong at Glaschu

Bookface Sip & Swap with Graeme Armstrong

Join us at 9.30am on Saturday 6 June at Glaschu for a morning of bookish chat with award-winning novelist Graeme as we celebrate hia new novel Raveheart

🎤 Live Q&A with Graeme

📚 Sustainable book swap – bring up to 4 books (300+ to choose from)

🥂 Sip & socialise – coffee/tea, 🥐☕️ croissant 🥂 fizz of soft drink included

👋 Come solo or bring a pal – Bookface events are friendly and welcoming

Raveheart is a high NRG look at the state of modern Britain through the eyes of a disparate band of rave rebels.

William Patterson, better known as DJ Turbo, is living a soulless existence after his glory days as resident spinner at a local Coatbridge ice rink, The Time Capsule, have been snatched from him. As a far-right UK regime sweeps to power, ‘The New Greatest Britishest Party’ cracks down on youth, culture, drugs and, the final straw, electronica.

Incensed by a blanket ban of their beloved tunes,Turbo and his comrades launch a rave revolt – resurrecting the illegal warehouse parties of the past in this new darker, monolithic Greatest Britain, as a powerful act of resistance. But, as the political situation escalates and secret police surveil every corner of society, Turbo and his troops fly ever closer to the sun in the dangerous world of the anti-rave abolitionist paramilitary.

Mixing classic hardcore anthems, nu-gen euphoria enthusiasts and psychotropic chemical courtships, they will fight the war for the rave. Deciding who to trust... and who may betray the cause is everything. The future of the whole nation is on the line... can Turbo be the hero not just of rave, but of Scotland?

Hilarious, tragic and incredibly clever all at once, this unique, narcotic trip of a novel is a modern, meta, mayhem-filled cultural coup d'état and cult-classic in the making, written in an inimitable and energetic voice, from one of the most electrifying young writers in Britain today.

About Graeme Armstrong

Graeme Armstrong is a Scottish writer from Airdrie. His teenage years were spent within North Lanarkshire’s gang culture. Alongside overcoming struggles with drug addiction, alcohol abuse and violence, he read English as an undergraduate at the University of Stirling; where he returned to study a Masters’ in Creative Writing. He is currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Strathclyde.

His bestselling debut novel, The Young Team, is inspired by his experiences, and was published by Picador in 2020. It won the Betty Trask Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, and was Scots Book of the Year 2021. It is currently being adapted for screen by Synchronicity Films. In 2023, Graeme was named as one of Granta’s ‘Best of Young British Novelists’, a once-in-a-decade literary honour.

About Bookface

Created in 2020 by avid reader Heather Suttie, Bookface is a 15,000+ strong online reading community and live event series that’s hosted 70+ sold-out events across Scotland. Bookface Sip & Swaps are a mix of relaxed author chats, and bookish good vibes. Previous guests include Virginia Evans, Tom Hindle, Catherine Newman. Alice Feeney, Val McDermid, Lisa Jewell, Tom Newlands, Claire Douglas, Shari Lapena, Juano Diaz, Sophie Gravia, John Niven, Heather Morris, Davinia Taylor, Susannah Constantine, Chris Brookmyre, Helen Fields and many more.

Bring two or more books to participate in our book swap of 300 titles or just come to meet the authors and enjoy a brilliantly bookish experience – no pressure, Kindle and audiobook fans always welcome.

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