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Ken MacLeod’s The Restoration Game

When it looked like Ken MacLeod’s next book, The Restoration Game, would be published in March rather than in July, Blackwell’s on South Bridge very kindly and cannily offered to host a launch party at (6:30 for) 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday 17 March at the nearby Pleasance Theatre. We’ll...

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Kirsti Wishart

Kirsti recently joined Bloc after a gruelling audition process, a nightmarish hybrid of Britain’s Got Talent and Mastermind, featuring a cameo appearance by Gavin Inglis as Simon Cowell.

She has Ph.D in Scottish Literature from St Andrews University but gained it such a long time ago it’s probably time-expired. She was once an editor of The Red Wheelbarrow and her short stories have appeared in Groundswell, New Writing Scotland, The Eildon Tree and on Laura Hird’s website. A chapbook entitled Dreams of the City featuring three Edinburgh-based tales was produced by Forest Publications last year and a few more stories will appear in the forthcoming anthology of The One O’Clock Gun. She is also a regular contributor to Product magazine.

At the moment she lives next to a graveyard and can be found staring out at it while working on yet another draft of her novel.