Damian Barr in conversation with Kiran Millwood Hargrave

About this event

Join us to hear author Damian Barr discuss The Two Roberts to celebrate its paperback release. This is an immersive, moving novel is a love story of art, class and devotion, based on the lives of working class artists, Bobby MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun. Damian will be in conversation with Kiran Millwood Hargrave . Tickets are £7 including a glass of wine or soft drink and can be booked online or in the shop. ‘Crackles with creative rebellion’ – Douglas Stuart ‘Immersive, intelligent, immensely sensual’ – Elif Shafak About the book: Scotland, 1933. Bobby MacBryde is off to the Glasgow School of Art. On his first day he will meet another Robert, a quiet man with loose dark curls – and never leave his side. With the world on the brink of war, their unrivalled talent takes them all over Europe, partying, loving, fighting, painting. The pair become stars as the bombs fall in this stunningly re-imagined true story of devotion and obsession, art and class. About Damian Barr: Damian Barr is an award-winning writer, broadcaster and journalist. His memoir Maggie & Me , won Stonewall Writer of the Year and Sunday Times Memoir of the Year. His debut novel, You WilL Be Safe Here , was shortlisted for six major awards and named a Book of the Year in the Observer, Guardian and Mail. He has written columns for The Times and Sunday Times and hosted Front Row on BBC Radio 4 as well as his own series Guide Books. In 2019, Damian brought books back to television with the Big Scottish Book Club, now in its sixth series and syndicated internationally. Also on BBC TV, he presented Shelf Isolation and the landmark documentary for Sir Walter Scott’s 250th. Damian holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His world-famous Literary Salon ran from 2008 to 2023, celebrating writers from around the world and widening the cultural conversation. He is a trustee of Gladstone’s Library and a campaigner for libraries. He lives in Brighton. About Kiran Millwood Hargrave: Kiran Millwood Hargrave is the multi-award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of a dozen novels for children and adults, including The Girl of Ink & Stars, The Mercies, Almost Life and The Geomancer Trilogy . Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages and optioned for stage and screen.