Scottish Nature Writing: Reading with Merryn Glover

Merryn Glover grew up internationally and now lives in the Cairngorms of Scotland. Whether out and about or at her desk, crossing cultures, landscapes and literary forms is her life. Join us to listen to Merryn read from her novels and from her newest book The Hidden Fires: A Cairngorms Journey with Nan Shepherd, which was short-listed for the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature and The Great Outdoors Book of the Year.

After the reading there will be a chance to speak to Merryn and buy signed copies of her work (please bring cash).

Merryn Glover is the award-winning author of fiction, drama, poetry and journalism. In a life spent crossing cultures, she was brought up in South Asia, went to University in Australia and has called Scotland home for nearly 30 years. Her plays and short stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and Radio Scotland and widely anthologised. Her first novel, A House Called Askival is set in an Indian hill-station, where she went to school, and her second, Of Stone and Sky, in the Badenoch region of the Cairngorms National Park where she now lives. It won Book of the Year at the Bookmark Book Festival, Blairgowrie, and was long-listed for the Highland Book Prize. In 2019, Merryn was the first Writer in Residence for the Cairngorms National Park and is a regular contributor to the Guardian Country Diary.

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