Somewhere Else – Book Launch Event – Jenni Daiches in conversation with Dr Bashabi Fraser

About the Event

When: Thursday 12th September 2024 at 6.30pm.

Where: St Vincent's Chapel, Edinburgh, EH3 6SW.

Join us at St Vincent's Chapel to hear Jenni Daiches, in conversation with Dr Bashabi Fraser, discussing her new book, Somewhere Else.

Order your copy of Somewhere Else and receive a free ticket to our event! Alternatively, our ticket-only option is available for £5 (which can be used towards a purchase of the book at the event).

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About Somewhere Else

Rosa Roshkin is five years old when her family are murdered in a pogrom and she is forced to leave behind everything she knows with only a suitcase of clothes and her father’s violin. An epic generational novel about womanhood and Judaeo-Scottish experience across two World Wars, the creation of Israel and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Jenni Daiches’s Somewhere Else explores today’s most difficult and urgent questions, not least of which: how to find identity in displacement.

‘Jenni Daiches has astonishingly re-created a lost world... I wept and laughed and wished I had written it.’ MIRIAM MARGOLYES

'An urgent exploration of the fragility and beauty of our shared humanity, here and elsewhere.' HANNAH HOLTSCHNEIDER, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH

About Jenni Daiches

Jennifer Daiches, daughter of the Scottish critic and biographer David Daiches, was born in Chicago, educated in the US and in England, before moving to Scotland in 1971.

From 1978 to 2001 she worked at the National Museums of Scotland in various capacities, including Head of Publications and script co-ordinator for exhibitions. She is a freelance writer and lecturer, writing on literary and historical subjects as Jenni Calder (having been married to the poet Angus Calder until 1982) and fiction and poetry as Jenni Daiches. An area of special interest has been Scottish emigration, particularly to North America, and questions of identity. Other key interests include Scottish literature and women writers.

Jenni Daiches’ published poetry includes Mediterranean (Scottish Cultural Press, 1995) and Smoke (Kettillonia, 2005).  She wrote a biography on the Scottish writer and poet, Naomi Mitchison, which was published by Virago in 1997;  she is the author or editor of many works on Robert Louis Stevenson, and has edited his poetry and stories.

About Dr Bashabi Fraser

Dr Bashabi Fraser, CBE is an award winning poet, children’s writer, editor, translator and academic.

Bashabi’s work traverses continents in bridge-building literary projects. She has authored and edited 23 books, published several articles and chapters, both academic and creative and as a poet, has been widely anthologised. She is the Chief Editor of the academic and creative peer-reviewed international e-journal, Gitanjali and Beyond and on the Editorial Board of RLF WritersMosaic.