Woman in Blue Event with Douglas Bruton - Wednesday 19th March 2025

We're delighted to welcome back Douglas Bruton, who will be talking about his new book, Woman in Blue, a work inspired by and about Vermeer's lovely painting, 'Woman in Blue Reading a Letter'. Join us!

6.30pm on Wednesday 19th March at Golden Hare Books, 68 St Stephen Street EH3 5AQ.

Buy a copy of Woman in Blue and receive free entry to the event, or choose our ticket-only option for £5 (which can be used towards a purchase of the book at the event).

About Woman in Blue In the Rijksmuseum of Amsterdam, there is a painting called 'Woman in Blue Reading a Letter'. Each day a man visits to gaze at it. He is irresistibly drawn to it.

Obsessed by it. He studies the painting, in search of resolutions to his past and present loves, and the Woman in Blue studies him back. For there is more to the Woman in Blue than any of the men who gaze upon her realise.

She has a story of her own to tell. With a delicate balance of truth and fiction, past and present, Bruton masterfully explores the intersection between art, artist and viewer, arriving at a profound meditation on love and creation.

About Douglas Bruton Douglas Bruton has had short stories placed in various publications including 'Northwords Now', 'New Writing Scotland', 'Aesthetica' and 'The Irish Literary Review'. His short stories have also won many competitions including with 'Fish' and 'The Neil Gunn Prize'. His children’s novel, The Chess Piece Magician was published by Floris Books (2009); his literary fiction debut, Mrs Winchester’s Gun Club, was published by Scotland Street Press (2019); and Blue Postcards, longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2022, was published by Fairlight Books (2021); With or Without Angels was also published by Fairlight Books (2023). A novella about the death of Dylan Thomas called Just Like Him To Die was published by Leamington Books (2022) and is available for kindle. In 2024 Taproot Press published Hope Never Knew Horizon which the Glasgow Herald said is a ‘book that glows with positivity’. Fairlight books will publish Woman in Blue in February 2025.