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Hollie McNish New Book Tour

Tue 21 Oct
19:30 - 21:30
Doors open 19:00

The title is still under-wraps but Hollie is back with a brand-new book tour in Autumn 2025.

A Sunday Times bestselling author, chatter and poetry lover, expect strong language and adult content, gift-wrapped in her much-loved poetry as she reads from this brand-new collection about love, loss, wolves and warm morning croissants.   

Here, she will be joined by fellow poet and performer Michael Pedersen reading from his magical brand new novel, Muckle Flugga.
 

Adult content warning 14+ / Book signing after the gig.

 

About the Author

 

Hollie McNish is a poet and author based between Glasgow and Cambridge. She was the first poet to record at Abbey Road Studios, London and won the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry for her poetic parenting memoir – Nobody Told Me - of which The Scotsman stated ‘The World Needs this Book’. She has published five further collections of poetry – Papers, Cherry Pie, Plum, and Slug and Lobster, both Sunday Times bestsellers. She loves writing.

 

"Warm, relatable, smart and funny" - Sophie Ellis-Bextor

“like Pam Ayres on acid” – Lemn Sissay

"bold, hilarious and tender" - Salena Godden

“Her writing is sublime” – Ellie Taylor

“Makes me cry and howl with laughter” - Paapa Essiedu

 

“One of the best poets we have”. – Matt Haig

''Never have we needed her more' - Stylist

"Funny, so smart and refreshingly honest" - Sarah Millican

 

About Michael Pedersen

Michael Pedersen: is a prize-winning Scottish poet and author, the Writer in Residence at The University of Edinburgh and the Edinburgh Makar (Poet Laureate). His prose debut, Boy Friends, was published by Faber & Faber to rave reviews and was a Sunday Times Critics Choice. He’s unfurled three collections of poetry, the most recent being The Cat Prince & Other Poems — which won the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Best Poetry 2023. Pedersen has twice been shortlisted for the Forward Prizes for Poetry and The Scottish National Book Awards, and won a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship. His work has attracted praise from the likes of: Stephen Fry, Shirley Manson, Jackie Kay, Irvine Welsh, Sara Pascoe, Nicola Sturgeon & many more. His debut novel (Muckle Flugga) will be published by Faber in May 2025.
 
‘Uncommonly romantic, irreverent and, at times, laugh out loud funny.’ —Shirley Manson

'Enchanting...astonishingly compelling...sparklingly written...rare and to be treasured'.’ — Stephen Fry 
 
'A master of words. He plays them like music.' —Kae Tempest 
 
'Lucid, lyrical, loaded, BOY FRIENDS is a love letter to friendship.' —Jackie Kay
 
 
 

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