Bookshop events

David Manderson

David Manderson will be signing copies of his new book ‘Lost Bodies’ at Milngavie Bookshop on Friday 9 September.

‘In an ordinary suburb of Glasgow, a seemingly ordinary man tends his garden and tries to impress his neighbours as a heat wave clamps over the city. But all is not as it seems, and as death begins to stalk the city’s streets and parks he finds himself caught up in a game beyond his control that brings terror to his very doorstep, and nothing about him or the place he lives will ever be the same again.’

David Manderson is a novelist, short story writer and literary and film historian. He ran the Reel to Real Short Film Festival at the Glasgow Film Festival for nine years, and founded and edited the creative writing magazine Nerve in the late 1990s. He has published many stories, articles and essays in small magazines and literary anthologies. This is his first novel.

He lives in Glasgow with his family, and currently runs the regular Reading Allowed event at the Tchai Ovna Café in Glasgow’s west end.

Friday 9 September at 2 pm, Milngavie Bookshop. Free event.

Nanzie McLeod

Nanzie McLeod’s last book ,TALES of G12 was set in the leafy west-end postal area which includes Glasgow University, Kelvingrove Art Galleries and, until recently, the BBC. In the shopping hub of Byres Road, coffee shops and restaurants jostle with delicatessens and the ready-made meals of well known chain stores. Only a short walk away are the red sandstone tenements of Hyndland, where elegant tall-windowed flats have been home to the professional middle class since the beginning of the last century

Nanzie has lived in Hyndland for most of her life and in TALES of G12, she mixes memories, anecdotes and real and imagined stories with a sensitive and sometimes revealing style. This book proved to be our 2010 Christmas best seller and all Nanzie’s other titles have consistently sold throughout the years.

Her latest book is a beautifully illustrated biography of her grandfather John McGhie.

John was born in 1868 in Lesmahagow, near Lanark. He showed his skills in drawing and painting from an early age but his father, a grocer, was unwilling that his son should follow the precarious career of an artist and apprenticed him to an architect.

However, the boy was not happy and eventually persuaded his father to enrol him at Glasgow School of Art for one year. At the end of that year he won a three-year scholarship to the prestigious Royal Academy School in London where tuition was given by the foremost artists of the time, whereupon he followed in their footsteps and proved his father wrong!

Meet Nanzie on Saturday 10 September at 11 am, Milngavie Bookshop. Free event.

Donald Nelson, Storyteller

Glastonbury to Milngavie…. come and hear stories, poems and songs with Donald, a veteran of the Glastonbury Kidzfield. In his words: “There is nothing children (and adults) like better than a good story. Storytelling can take their minds to places that no computer game, film or television programme ever could.”

Meet Donald on Saturday 10 September at 11am, Milngavie bookshop. Free event

Badger the Mystical Mutt

“It was a quarter past midsummer. In a garden, next to a lane, Badger the Mystical Mutt… had gathered all the ingredients for his fabulous new spell . . . Meanwhile, in the lane at the bottom of the garden, all was not well. Hamish was running for his life.”

Pet Idol is in town, and Hamish, a floppy-eared spaniel, is the favourite to win. But as the spotlight falls on the lane, Top Dog and his gang of strays are hunted by the Dog Catcher, and blame Hamish for their troubles. With his haphazard magic, an appetite for toast and a strange travelling machine, can Badger the Mystical Mutt save Hamish from Top Dog and his gang? And can Hamish still win Pet Idol?

“Funny, exciting, clever, and great fun with a mystical twist”     School Librarian

Meet Badger the Mystical Mutt at Milngavie Bookshop on Saturday 10th at 12.30pm.  Reading and book signing.