In Process with J David Simons: Scottish Writers’ Centre 4th March, 2014. CCA
J David Simons Scottish Writers’ Centre
CCA
Tue 4 March 2014
7pm, £6 (£3), FREE to SWC members
No booking required
Glasgow-born author J. David Simons has been a lawyer, charity administrator, cotton farmer, university lecturer and journalist. His work has been short-listed for The McKitterick Prize, he has been the recipient of two Creative Scotland writers’ bursaries and a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship and he is a long-standing committee member of the Weegie Wednesday networking group. He will discuss his latest novel, An Exquisite Sense of What is Beautiful (Saraband, 2013), and talk about the writing of historical fiction as seen through his first two novels – The Credit Draper (2008) and The Liberation of Celia Kahn (2011) – both set in Glasgow’s Jewish community.
Centre for Contemporary Arts
350 Sauchiehall Street
Glasgow G2 3JD
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