Blurred Faces Launch Event with Allan Radcliffe - Thursday 13th November 2025

Join us in the bookshop to hear Allan Radcliffe in conversation with Mary Paulson-Ellis about Blurred Faces.

6.30pm on Thursday 13th November at Golden Hare Books, 68 St Stephen Street, EH3 5AQ.

Buy a copy of Blurred Faces and receive free entry to the event, or choose our Ticket-Only option for £6 (which can be used towards a purchase of the book at the event).

As our event is taking place on publication day, pre-ordered copies of Blurred Faces will be available to collect at the event.

We will send an email to confirm your booking - please be sure to check your junk/spam folder!

About Blurred Faces 'I mean, it's nothing really. An old face from the past.' Two men meet on a dating app. It's supposed to be a casual encounter between strangers...

Jordan is only back in Edinburgh to visit his complicated family, and Davie is reeling from a painful breakup. Yet Davie recognises Jordan as someone he knew long ago, when they were both closeted teenagers at the same school. Back then, Jordan was relentlessly bullied - and Davie was one of the bullies.

But Jordan doesn't remember him at all. Against the backdrop of a city steeped in memories, Davie and Jordan find themselves drawn together again and again. A fragile intimacy blossoms between them, but can anyone ever be free of their past?

About Allan Radcliffe Allan was born in Perth, Scotland, and now lives near Edinburgh. His writing has won the Allen Wright Award and the Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award. With an MA from the University of Glasgow, he works as an arts journalist and editor, and is currently a freelance theatre critic and feature writer.

His short stories have been published in anthologies including Out There, The Best Gay Short Stories and New Writing Scotland, and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. The Old Haunts, his debut novel, was shortlisted for the McKitterick Prize 2024 and for the First Book Award at Scotland’s National Book Awards 2024.