Writers from the Book Works Seminar series whose work demonstrates a total disregard for the conventions that structure received ideas about fiction. Bridget Penney was born and grew up in Edinburgh; her first book Honeymoon with Death was shortlisted for the Saltire Society Scottish First Book of the Year Award. Richard Marshall says of Katrina Palmer’s The Dark Object: “the reader is placed in a Russian Doll sort of text, a story in a story in a story, where the ideal of narrative closure, of interpretive closure, is provocatively questioned.” The same source calls Stewart Home: “Britain’s greatest living underground legend”. Home is the author of 13 published novels and several books of cultural commentary