

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: 'This place as well as another:' Writing the Region in Nan Shepherd's Fiction
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 17 Feb, 2026 at 07:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Guest speaker: Ali Lumsden
All welcome
Admission £6

While Nan Shepherd is most lauded today for her reflection on walking in the Cairngorms, 'The Living Mountain', it was her fiction which cemented her literary reputation in her own lifetime.

This talk by Ali Lumsden, Regius Professor of English Literature at the University of Aberdeen, will discuss Shepherd’s fiction, and in particular her first novel 'The Quarry Wood'.

It will consider the ways in which it depicts the North-east of Scotland and the significance of this for its exploration of wider questions of staying and leaving, the relationship between the local and the wider world, and the importance of belonging. It will also discuss how Shepherd’s approach to the local offers a model for considering the concept of the region more generally, including the ‘region’ of the Scottish Border.
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- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Melrose
- **state**: SC
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: Ormiston Institute, Melrose
- **lat**: 55.59719
- **long**: -2.71974
- **full address**: Ormiston Institute, Melrose, United Kingdom

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- **organizer**: Melrose Literary Society (https://allevents.in/org/melrose-literary-society/22616689)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Tue, 17 Feb, 2026 at 07:30 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Ormiston Institute, Melrose, United Kingdom
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Melrose Literary Society
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art
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