Scabby Queen: Kirstin Innes

THIS. BOOK. Oh this book people!! Kirstin Innes’ Scabby Queen is utterly phenomenal, political, feminist fiction - and our copies have snazzy signed bookplates with individual messages! So here’s to Kirsten, here’s to Clio, here’s to the working class women the world tries to crush, erase or sideline, here’s to their survival and their legacies.

In a wee window when it was safe, Kirsten joined Mairi in the bookshop for a socially distanced chat, discussing her writing, Me Too, research, putting the politics in fiction and publishing during a pandemic. We're thrilled to share the 30minute video as a seasonal treat between Christmas & New Year - pour yerself a glass of wine, put on some lippy and tune in for the dulcet tones of one of Scotland's most exciting novelists. “Kirstin Innes is aiming high, writing for readers in the early days of a better nation”- A.L. Kennedy