For the wild weather of autumn, some wild reads and author events at the library!
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Ken McClure
Born and brought up in Edinburgh, Ken McClure is an award winning scientist whose medical thrillers feature Dr. Steve Dunbar.
Grangemouth Library| - Monday 03 November - 7.00pm
Eye of the Raven
Dr Steven Dunbar is bemused when the deathbed confession of a convicted psychopath lands on his desk. Until it emerges that another man has already been charged with the crime. A man whose medical research once sent shockwaves through the scientific community.
The Lazarus Strain
When an apparent animal rights stunt sends shockwaves from the quiet English countryside to the corridors of Whitehall, Sci-Med, an elite investigative agency, sends Dr Steven Dunbar to uncover the truth.
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Chris Hannan
Chris Hannan, who is an award winning playwright, was born in Clydebank.
Bo'ness Library| - Tuesday 11 November - 7.00pm
Missy
California, 1862. Dol, an irrepressible young flash-girl, hitches a wagon with a gaggle of friends, headed east for new adventures. But on the road an act of kindness saving a man from suicide invites her own destruction. The man is a murderous pimp with a chest full of missy (opium), who resents being rescued, and decides to take revenge.
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Anne Donovan
Glasgow author, Anne Donovan's first novel Buddha Da was short listed for the Orange prize.
Falkirk Library| - Thursday 13 November - 7.00pm
Being Emily
Things are never dull in the O'Connell family. Still, Fiona, squeezed between her quiet brother and her mischievous line-dancing twin sisters, thinks life in their tenement flat is far less interesting than Emily Bronte's. Moving, funny and ultimately heart-warming, Being Emily is a novel about one young girl trying to find her place in the world amid the turmoil that only your own family can create.
Buddhada
Anne Marie's Da, a Glaswegian painter and decorator, has always been game for a laugh. So when he first takes up meditation at the Buddhist Centre, no one takes him seriously (especially when his pursuit of the new lama ends in a trip round the Carmunnock bypass). But as Jimmy becomes more involved in a search for the spiritual, his beliefs start to come into conflict with the needs of his wife, Liz. Cracks appear in their apparently happy family life, and the ensuing events change the lives of each family member
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Ewan Morrison
Ewan Morrison, who graduated from Glasgow School of Art, is a Bafta nominated writer-director and journalist.
Larbert Library| - Friday 14 November - 7.00pm
Distance
They fall in love in New York City and spend a passionate week together before he returns to his home in Edinburgh, where they are to reunite in eight weeks. So begins a long distance relationship filled with phone calls, phone sex, emails, text messages and the pain of waiting.
Swung
David and Alice plunge head first into the hidden world of Glasgow swinging, where no one is ugly and nothing is forbidden. Swung is frank, funny, disturbing and compassionate.
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Kirsty Scott
Kirsty Scott, a journalist writing for the Guardian, lives in Stirlingshire with her family.
Bonnybridge Library| - Thursday 20 November - 7.00pm
Between You & Me
Back when they were young, Cate and Margie's friendship meant the world to them. But now they're worlds apart. Cate's living in Scotland with her gorgeous husband Dan and their perfect children: her life apparently a textbook example of domestic bliss. Margie, meanwhile, is a vision of career success. Then a school reunion brings them back together and it will be just in time.
Mother's Day
It's the first day of term and outside the school gates gossip hums, SUVs swarm and Boden abounds. And three very different mothers are about to discover that friends are the only accessories they need.
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Doug Johnstone
Doug Johnstone was born in Irvine and brought up in Arbroath, has a PhD in nuclear physics, and works as a freelance journalist and writer.
Denny Library| - Wednesday 26 November - 7.00pm
Tombstoning
Your best mate just fell off a cliff in mysterious circumstances and you were the last person to see him alive. What do you do? Well, if you're David Lindsay from Arbroath, you get the hell out of there and don't return. Not for at least fifteen years. And when someone else takes a dive off the cliffs - an act the locals have taken to calling 'tombstoning' - while David's there, he has a choice: run away again, or finally find out why people keep dying around him . . .
The Ossians
Connor is lead singer of The Ossians, an acclaimed Edinbrugh band on the verge of signing a major record deal. But The Ossians' tour is not so much a realization of the rock-n-roll dream as a nightmarish journey into the underbelly of modern Scotland involving a seagull massacre, hapless drug deals, a mysterious stalker, a radioactive beach, inevitable substance abuse, considerable verbal abuse, riotous Russion submariners, deadly snowstorms, regular beatings and random shootings.