Andrew O'Hagan – Caledonian Road
WithAndrew O'Hagan
In conversation withKirstin Innes
At: Assembly Roxy
On:9th April 2024, 7:30pm - 8:45pm
It's a complete joy to be welcoming Andrew O'Hagan to the Assembly Roxy for the Edinburgh launch of his eagerly-anticipated novel Caledonian Road. From the author of Mayflies, this is an irresistible, unputdownable, state-of-the-nation novel – the story of one man’s epic fall from grace. We're huge fans of O'Hagan's writing and it's a privilege to be celebrating his new novel with him! He will be in conversation with writer and journalist Kirstin Innes.
This event will take place at the Assembly Roxy in the centre of Edinburgh. There will be a book signing after the event.
Books for the Book & Ticket option will be available to collect at the event venue. Doors due to open at 7pm.
Venue Accessibility: There is step-free access to the venue on arrival. There is also an accessible toilet located on the same floor with level access.
Please note that there will not be a livestream of this event.
About Caledonian Road:
May 2021. London.
Campbell Flynn, art historian and celebrity intellectual, is embarking on the ripeness of midlife.Fuelled by an appetite for admiration and the finer things - and for controversy and novelty - he doesn't take people half as seriously as they take themselves. Which will prove the first of his huge mistakes.
The second? Milo Mangasha, his beguiling and provocative student.Milo inhabits a more precarious world, and has experiences and ideas that excite his professor. He also has a plan.
Over the course of an incendiary year, a web of crimes, secrets and scandals will be revealed, and Campbell Flynn may not be able to protect himself from the shattering exposure of his privilege and his connections. But then, he always knew: when his life came tumbling down, it would occur in public.
Please note: Tickets for our events are non-refundable. Professional photography and videography may take place during this event. Thank you for your understanding.
Participants:
Andrew O'Hagan Author
Andrew O'Hagan has been nominated for the Booker Prize, voted one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2003, and won the E. M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is Editor-at-Large of the London Review of Books and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Kirstin Innes Chair
Kirstin Innes is a writer based in the West of Scotland. Her latest novel, Scabby Queen, published by 4th Estate, was nominated for the Gordon Burn Prize and Scottish Novel of the Year, and is being adapted for television by Moonage Pictures. Her debut, Fishnet, won The Guardian’s Not The Booker prize in 2015 and is published by Black & White in the UK and Scout Press in the US and Canada, and is being adapted for television by STV. Her first non-fiction book, Brickwork: A Biography of The Arches, an oral history of the legendary Glasgow venue co-authored with David Bratchpiece, was published in 2021 and shortlisted for UK Theatre Book of the Year. Kirstin is a regular columnist for The Press and Journal, and often writes for radio, including a number of short stories and the script for the BBC Radio 4 documentary Daft Punk Is Staying At My House, My House.
The venue
Assembly Roxy
2 Roxburgh Place
Edinburgh
EH8 9SU
Telephone: 0131 623 3001
Website: assemblyfestival.com/roxy/about-assembly-roxy
Venue Accessibility: There is step-free access to the venue on arrival. There is also an accessible toilet located on the same floor with level access.