Shiver Event with Brigid Lowe - Thursday 24th September 2026

Join us at St Vincent's Chapel to hear Brigid Lowe in conversation with Elizabeth Sulis Kim about Shiver: The Lessons of the Lochs.

6.30pm on Thursday 24th September at St. Vincent's Chapel, St Vincent Street.

Buy a copy of Shiver 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 Shiver After Brigid Lowe’s world is upended, Scotland becomes her home. Its icy, wild waters a place of visceral relief. Baptising herself into this new life, Brigid sets herself a challenge: to swim in 1,000 of these spectacular lochs.

And so Brigid’s adventures begin: stepping into ice and caves and sacred springs, she swims with birds, conger eels and seals, across forest and mountain and moor, alone and with her children in tow. And as she comes to know these secret pools, with their vaulting depths and softer shallows, she walks the line between recklessness and safety, discovering new depths of pain and pleasure, of strength and endurance.

About Brigid Lowe Brigid Lowe grew up in remote Wales of Irish parentage and now lives in Edinburgh with her children. She studied literature at Bangor, completed a doctorate at Oxford, and later lectured at Sheffield and held a fellowship at Trinity College Cambridge. She traces her descent from travellers, circus performers, mill workers and gallowglass warriors. An obsessive wild swimmer, Brigid writes out of an intense relationship with the lochs, hills and elemental beauty of Scotland. Her debut novel, The Bloody Branch, was published by Harvill (PRH) in January 2026. Shiver was a winner of The RSL Giles St Aubyn Award for Non-Fiction 2025, gifted to exceptional first-time writers of non-fiction.

About Elizabeth Sulis Kim Elizabeth Sulis Kim's writing has appeared in places such as BBC Culture, Mslexia, Hellebore, Fiddler's Green, Litro, The Guardian, The Independent, Refinery29, and the LA Review of Books. She is the founding editor of Cunning Folk, the popular independent magazine about magic, mythology, folklore and the occult. She grew up in the rural West Country and now lives in Scotland. Her debut narrative non-fiction book, The Book of Beasts: Reclaiming Animal Wisdom will be published by Chatto & Windus in August 2026.