Donald S Murray: The Salt and the Flame - Ticket-Only Option

Join us for an event with Donald S Murray in conversation with Dolina MacLennan to discuss his celebrated novel The Salt and the Flame.

The event will take place at Golden Hare Books (EH3 5AQ) on Thursday, 15th of February at 6.30pm. Your £5 ticket can be used against the value of the book at the event, but if you would like to purchase a copy of the book and get a free ticket, please click here.

About the book:

April 21, 1923. The SS Metagama is inching out of Stornoway harbour, Scotland, bound for Canada. On board are Finlay and Mairead; they are young and hopeful, leaving behind their struggling motherland to change their lives forever…

On the other side of the Atlantic, though, they face the realities of an uncaring industrial society. The effects of the Great Depression are inescapable, prejudice and division are rife, and though they remain bound by a shared past, their own lives soon diverge.

In an adopted country that is tense with both opportunity and loss, social progress and violent backlash, can Mairead and Finlay keep their promises to one another, to look only forward, and resist the constant pull of home?

About Donald S Murray:

A son of the Hebrides, Donald S Murray is a writer and poet whose first novel, As the Women Lay Dying, won the Paul Torday Memorial Prize in 2020, as well as being shortlisted for a host of other literary awards. Like his first novel, his second, In A Veil of Mist, is set in the Isle of Lewis and centred on historical events of the 20th century. In a Veil of Mist was shortlisted for the Highland Book Prize. Donald’s previous books have been shortlisted for both the Saltire Literary Awards and the Callum Macdonald Memorial Award. His critically acclaimed non-fiction books bring to life the culture and nature of the Scottish islands, and he appears regularly on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio Scotland. He is also the writer of The Man Who Talks Birds, a collection of poetry published in 2020.