Mr Outside Event with Caleb Klaces - Thursday 30th October 2025

We're delighted to welcome Caleb Klaces to the bookshop to celebrate the publication of his novel, Mr Outside. Caleb will be joined in conversation by Martin MacInes and Oli Hazzard.

6.30pm on Thursday 30th October at Golden Hare Books, 68 St Stephen Street, EH3 5AQ.

Buy a copy of Mr Outside 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).

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About Mr Outside During a time of restricted movement, the narrator of Mr Outside visits his reclusive father Thomas who is packing up to move into a care home. As father and son grapple with the task, long-buried conflicts resurface. Thomas, a poet and former radical priest, slips between affection and fear, while the narrator struggles to find the words he’s been holding back.

Yet amidst confusion and grief, moments of humour and connection emerge, as both men discover new ways to understand each other and let go. Told through a striking combination of text and image, Klaces’ distilled novel explores the stories we tell about our lives, the limits of intimacy, and the fragile line between reality and delusion. Based on the life of his own father, Mr Outside is poignant, profound, and unexpectedly funny; a tender meditation on endings, the limits of understanding, and the act of letting go.

About Caleb Klaces Caleb Klaces is the author of the novel Fatherhood, which won a Northern Writers Award and was longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize, and the poetry collections Away From Me and Bottled Air, which won an Eric Gregory Award and the Melita Hume Prize. He grew up in Birmingham.

About Martin MacInnes Martin MacInnes lives in Edinburgh. His debut novel, Infinite Ground (2016), won the Somerset Maugham Award. His second novel, Gathering Evidence (2020), led to his inclusion in The National Centre for Writing/British Council's list of ten writers shaping the UK's future. His third novel, In Ascension (2023), was longlisted for the Booker Prize and has been optioned for film. He is published in 10 languages, and is the winner of a Manchester Fiction Prize and a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award.

About Oli Hazzard Oli Hazzard is the author of three books of poems, Between Two Windows (Carcanet, 2012), Blotter (Carcanet, 2018) and Sleepers Awake (Carcanet, 2024), and a book of literary criticism, John Ashbery and Anglo-American Exchange: The Minor Eras (Oxford University Press, 2018). He lives in Glasgow, and teaches at the University of St Andrews.