Juno Dawson – Stay Another Day

We are so excited to welcome Juno Dawson to Portobello for an evening event to celebrate her new festive book with an Edinburgh setting, Stay Another Day. She will be in conversation with author and youth worker Michael Lee Richardson.

We are planning for this event to take place in the bookshop with a small in-person audience, as well as a livestream for attendees watching from home. However, depending on COVID regulations at the time of the event, those purchasing the in-person audience option will also receive the link to watch the event from home, should we be unable to welcome people to the bookshop on the night. Following Scottish Government advice and guidelines, in-person audience attendees will be asked to wear a face covering inside the bookshop unless they are exempt.

When three very different siblings, Fern, Rowan and Willow, return for a Christmas reunion at their family home in Edinburgh, it's not long before some very big secrets threaten their cosy holiday...

The McAllister house on Arboretum Road has seen 120 Christmases since its completion. This year, Fern is bringing her gorgeous boyfriend home and she wants everything to be perfect. But her twin brother Rowan would rather go on the pull than pull crackers with the family. And their younger sister Willow is terrified of Christmas Day.

With FOUR sleeps till Christmas, THREE secretive siblings, TWO hot houseguests, and ONE juicy secret...this Christmas, there will be some BIG surprises under the tree.

Juno Dawson is a bestselling novelist, screenwriter, journalist, podcaster and columnist for Attitude Magazine. Her writing has appeared in Glamour, Dazed, Grazia, and The Guardian. Juno’s critically acclaimed novels include the London Collection: Clean, Wonderland, and the YA Book Prize winning Meat Market, and non-fiction titles including This Book is Gay and What's the T? She has appeared on Pointless Celebrities, BBC Woman’s Hour, ITV News, This Morning and Newsnight. An occasional actress and model, Juno appeared in BBC’s I May Destroy You (2020) and Holby City (2021) and was the face of Jecca Cosmetics Play Pots campaign. Juno now lives in Brighton and is part of the queer cabaret collective known as Club Silencio. Juno is also a School Role Model for the charity Stonewall.

Michael Lee Richardson is a writer and youth worker based in Glasgow. Michael’s short film, My Loneliness is Killing Me – directed by Tim Courtney – won a BAFTA Scotland Award in 2018. It has been shown on BBC Scotland, and at film festivals around the world. Michael currently has film and television projects in development with Kindle Entertainment, Balloon, Projector Pictures, Tigerlily and Bombito. As a youth worker, Michael set up and ran Trans Youth Glasgow. Michael is passionate about telling rich, authentic stories about queer and working class lives and culture. Outside of writing, Michael likes 80s makeover montages, witches, and going to the shops.

When you purchase a signed – and if requested, dedicated – copy of Stay Another Day via the options below, you will also receive access to the livestream of the event. There is also an option to purchase a £3 voucher which provides access to the livestream. The voucher can be used on any item in the bookshop and on our website – including other books by Juno Dawson. Please consider supporting the bookshop by purchasing a book or voucher, however we are also offering a Free Ticket option for this event.

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