Graeme Macrae Burnet in conversation with Prof. Sally Mapstone

All staff and students are welcome to hear Graeme Macrae Burnet, author of the Booker Prize nominated His Bloody Project, in conversation with the Principal, Professor Sally Mapstone.

The event takes place in the Booth lecture Theatre, Medical Building on Tuesday 4 April at 5.30pm.

Graeme was brought up Kilmarnock. Ayrshire and now lives in Glasgow. He has also lived in the Czech Republic, France, Portugal and London.

A former TV researcher, English teacher and bookseller, his French-set debut The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau was a cult hit and won him a Scottish Book Trust New Writers’ Award. His second novel, His Bloody Project, was shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker prize, the LA Times Crime Book of the Year, and won the Satire Prize for Fiction. It has been variously described as "astonishing", "fiendishly readable", "spellbinding" and "masterly", and is set to be translated into more than a dozen languages.

He is currently working on a follow-up to The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau, entitled The Accident on the A35.