Bookface Sip & Swap with John Niven at Saints of Ingram. Come join us for a fun afternoon in Glasgow on Saturday 27 September from 3-6pm.
Ticket link:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bookface-sip-swap-afternoon-with-john-niven-on-saturday-27-september-tickets-1505594466579?aff=oddtdtcreator
Expect:
🥂 Sip fizz
🎤 Enjoy 45 min interview with John on his work and latest book
📚 Participate in our book swap with 300 titles to choose from
📖 You will meet John on the day and be able to buy a copy of his new book.
John Niven visited Bookface two years ago with O Brother, his powerful bestselling memoir about the life and death of his younger brother Gary. This time, he’s back with The Fathers, a sharp, darkly funny novel exploring fatherhood, masculinity, and class.
Born in Irvine, Ayrshire, Niven studied English Literature at the University of Glasgow, graduating with first-class honours. He spent a decade in the music industry before turning to writing full-time. His breakout novel K*ll Your Friends (2008) was a savage satire of his A&R days and went on to become a cult bestseller.
His fiction spans genres – from comedies like The Sunshine Cruise Company to thrillers like Cold Hands – but it’s all shot through with his trademark wit and bite. Alongside novels, Niven writes screenplays with his writing partner Nick Ball and has contributed journalism to Q and The Independent.
In The Fathers, Niven returns to fiction with the story of two very different dads – one a successful screenwriter, the other a small-time Glaswegian criminal – thrown together by chance outside a maternity ward. Like all his best work, it’s sharp, unpredictable and impossible to pigeonhole.
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