WRITERS’ BLOC

presents

Nil by Mouth/The Secret of Scottish Football Launch 

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  WHAT: Book launch, with live readings of original fiction 

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  WHO: Writers’ Bloc spoken-word performance group 

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  WHERE: Function suite, Easter Road Stadium, Easter Road, Edinburgh 

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  WHEN: 7.30 p.m., Thursday 27 May 2010 

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  HOW MUCH: FREE 

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Writers’ Bloc is pleased to announce the launch of two new chapbooks, and has secured the function suite at Easter Road for the launch! 

Andrew C. Ferguson’s The Secret of Scottish Football is a soccer book with a difference. Fife has spawned many famous footballers, but it’s also had its share of the supernatural. As these stories show, when the two collide, the results can be more surprising than the half-time pies at Stark’s Park. 

Scotland on Sunday described one of these tales as having “all the energy and vigour of early Irvine Welsh, but with far more humour and nuance”. In his foreword, Pat Nevin says, “Harsh reality sits side by side with sometimes even harsher fantasy, in a long Scottish tradition that echoes much of the work of Robert Burns…” 

Continuing the culinary theme, the stories in Morag Edwards’s Nil by Mouth are a dark, spicy mixture, topped off by recipes and Mo’s own fantastic artwork. Just make sure you follow the haggis recipe very carefully…  
 

Booksquawk.com calls this chapbook “a fantastic example of the darkly witty Scottish sense of humour and a punchy little collection of stories that can be devoured in a lunch-break”. 

The event starts at 7:30 p.m., and there’s a pay-as-you-go bar. Even Jambos will be made welcome.