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Kirsty wark launches her new book house by the loch byres road glasgow event. Bbc arts and the edinburgh international book festival present a specially curated event, hosted by kirsty wark, featuring writers jackie kay, maggie ofarrell and rachel mccrum. The book opens with a young boy, walter, witnessing a spitfire crashing into the loch in 1941. Her home has always been scotland and her familys connection to arran goes back over many years. Kirsty wark the house by the loch book launch 12 jun.
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