wordfringe
2009
1st–31st May 2009
Week 5
Monday 25 May
7pm
Tarts and Crafts, Balmedie
Join us on our flights of fancy, and prepare to have your feathers ruffled
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Tuesday 26 May
6.30pm
Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen
T.S. Eliot prizewinner Jen Hadfield, Jingling Geordie Keith Armstrong, and John
Mackie's Infinite Equation #2
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Wednesday 27 May
7pm
Gordon Highlanders Museum, Aberdeen
Poems and songs on the theme of leaving and returning home
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Thursday 28 May
6.30pm
Books and Beans, Aberdeen
Makar Poets breeze into Aberdeen
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Friday 29 May
7.30pm
Crown Terrace Methodist Church, Aberdeen
An Aberdeen Writers' Circle bi-annual event
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Saturday 30 May
1pm
Better Read Books, Ellon
The author will be signing copies of his new book
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Saturday 30 May
7.30pm
Aberdeen Arts Centre
Let Hitler do his worst — Aberdeen's fishwives show him they have the guts
to cope
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Sunday 31 May
3pm
Left Bank, Tarland
Koo Press Poetry Roadshow with Catriona Yule, Haworth Hodgkinson and Douglas W. Gray
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Stuart MacBride: Blind Eye
The author will be signing copies of his new book
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Saturday 30 May 2009
1pm – 3pm
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Better Read Books, Ellon [Map]
Admission free
No booking required
Stuart MacBride is most famous for his crime thrillers set in the Granite City of
Aberdeen and featuring Detective Sergeant Logan McRae. Blind Eye, the fifth
book in the series, concerns a serial killer who preys on Polish migrant workers.
The authour will be signing copies of the book, published in May 2009.
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Stuart MacBride was born in Dumbarton and raised in Aberdeen. He studied
architecture at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh. His careers include scrubbing
toilets offshore, graphic design, web design and IT/computer programming.
He now lives in North-East Scotland with his wife, Fiona and their cat Grendel.
He is reputed to be a passionate potato grower, but claims to have a vegetable patch
full of weeds.
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