Irvine Welsh on The Long Knives
The Edge Auditorium, slq
Main Festival
BWF109
#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
No one writes a crime novel quite like Irvine Welsh, and no one solves a mystery like Detective Ray Lennox. The latest instalment in one of the darkest, most original detective series ever written, The Long Knives revels in Welsh’s punkish penchant for blending satirical social commentary with body horror, a psychedelic odyssey into the bowels of Edinburgh’s criminal underworld.
#Artists
Irvine Welsh
Scottish playwright and novelist Irvine Welsh is the author of eleven previous novels (including Trainspotting, Filth and The Acid House) and four books of shorter fiction.
Mirandi Riwoe
Mirandi Riwoe is the author of Sunbirds. Her novel, Stone Sky Gold Mountain, won the ARA Historical Novel Prize and the Queensland Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. Her novella The Fish Girl won Seizure’s Viva la Novella and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize. Her short fiction and novellas can be found in the collection The Burnished Sun. Mirandi has a PhD in Creative Writing and Literary Studies (QUT).