BOOKMARK CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS 2025


Sean Lusk
Sean Lusk

Sean Lusk is an award-winning short story writer and novelist,...

Victoria MacKenzie
Victoria MacKenzie

Victoria MacKenzie is a fiction writer, poet and essayist based...

Carys Davies
Carys Davies

Carys Davies's debut novel West was shortlisted for the...

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Three fascinating women from history, subjects of fictional biographies by two award-winning writers will be discussed after our AGM.  

Sean Lusk’s A Woman of Opinion and Victoria Mackenzie’s For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain bring the 18th and 15th centuries vividly and unforgettably to life.

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Adventure into Books - 01250 872852 

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Perthshire Box Office

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