Val McDermid – Queen Macbeth
WithVal McDermid
In conversation withNicola Sturgeon
On:2nd May 2024, 7:30pm - 8:45pm
We're absolutely thrilled that Val McDermid is coming to Portobello Town Hall to celebrate the publication day launch of her new novella, Queen Macbeth. Ever since we opened back in July 2019, Val has been a great supporter of the bookshop and we cannot wait to host this launch for the latest addition to Polygon's Darkland Tales series.
It's going to be an extra special event as McDermid will be in conversation with Nicola Sturgeon.
This in-person event will take place at Portobello Town Hall. There will be a book signing following the conversation.
Books for the Book & Ticket options (for both Stalls and Balcony) will be available to collect at the event venue. Doors due to open at 6.45pm.
About Queen Macbeth:
In the depths of 11th century Scotland, we meet Gruoch Ingen Boite, a granddaughter of the king, caught up in a web of vicious intrigue. Set against a dramatic highland backdrop, this is a tale of marriage and multiple murder, showing how one strong, charismatic woman, shaped by hard times, was able to survive – and thrive – amidst the endless plotting of a succession of ruthless and ambitious men.
Overturning Shakespeare’s propaganda, readers will encounter a new Lady Macbeth, bringing a schemer in the shadows out into the light and exposing the patriarchal prejudices of history.
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:
Val McDermid Author
Val McDermid is a number one bestseller whose novels have been translated into forty languages, and have sold over nineteen million copies. She has won many awards internationally, including the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year and the LA Times Book of the Year Award. She was inducted into the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame in 2009, was the recipient of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger in 2010 and received the Lambda Literary Foundation Pioneer Award in 2011. In 2016, Val received the Outstanding Contribution to Crime Fiction Award at the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival and in 2017 received the DIVA Literary Prize for Crime, and was elected a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Val has served as a judge for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize, and was Chair of the Wellcome Book Prize in 2017. She is the recipient of seven honorary doctorates, is an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda’s College, Oxford and a Professor at the University of Otago in New Zealand. She writes full time and divides her time between Edinburgh and East Neuk of Fife.
Nicola Sturgeon Chair
Nicola Sturgeon served as First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the Scottish National Party from 2014 to 2023 and has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament since its establishment in 1999. As leader of the SNP, she worked with five British Prime Ministers, from David Cameron to Rishi Sunak.
The venue
Portobello Town Hall
147-149 Portobello High St
Telephone: 07725 834968
Website: www.portobellocentral.org/
There is an accessible ramp on the East of the building and an accessible WC.
For accessible seating on ground floor level, please choose Stalls options.
Balcony seating is on the first floor of the building and is only accessible via stairs.