How far would you go to ensure survival?
At the end of the world in Rachelle Atalla’s debut The Pharmacist, Wolfe is one of the lucky ones. She's made it to the bunker, and employed as the bunker's pharmacist, she’s doling out medicine under the watchful eye of their increasingly erratic and paranoid leader. But the walls that keep her safe also have her trapped in a place where one small misstep can light the fuse on the powder keg of life underground.
In Off-Target, Eve Smith imagines an all-too-possible near future, when genetic engineering has become the norm for humans, and parents are prepared to take incalculable risks to ensure that their babies are perfect. Susan has been trying for a baby for years so when an impulsive one-night stand makes her dream come true, she'll do anything to keep her daughter and ensure her husband doesn't find out. Including the unthinkable...
Chaired by Jim Taylor
About the event
Running time: 60 minues
Venue: Pleasance Upper Hall
Price: £10/£8 concession - In Person - or £6/£4 concession - Live Stream - (plus 50p booking fee)
This event takes place in person and is broadcasted via a live stream.
About the authors
Longlisted for the Not the Booker Prize and described by Waterstones as "an exciting new voice in crime fiction", Eve Smith’s debut novel The Waiting Rooms was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize First Novel Award. Eve writes speculative fiction, mainly about the things that scare her. In this world of questionable facts, stats and news, she believes storytelling is more important than ever to engage people in real life issues.
Follow Eve Smith on Twitter @evecsmith or visit her website.
Rachelle Atalla is a Scottish-Egyptian novelist, short story writer and screenwriter based in Glasgow. Her debut novel The Pharmacist will be published by Hodder & Stoughton in May 2022, with her second novel Livestock scheduled for the following year. Her short stories have been published widely in literary anthologies; she is the recipient of a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award and co-edits New Writing Scotland.
Follow Rachelle Atalla on Twitter @rachelle_ata.