Events

We welcome three intrepid adventurers to celebrate a brand-new collection of Scottish travel writing, There She Goes: New Travel Writing by Women, as part of our Life’s Fundamentals series. These wide-ranging stories consider the role that travel and movement play in our lives, remarkable for their everyday nature, and rooted in the common experience of moving through the world as a woman.

Esa Aldegheri, the book’s editor, shares her experience of collecting stories which are largely absent from the canon of ‘real’, published travel writing. Leena Rustom Nammari brings us an account of crossing the El Jisir bridge – the only official border crossing between the West Bank and Jordan – as a Palestinian travelling away from her homeland. And Jemma Neville shares a different kind of travel log, domestic diaries from the foothills of new motherhood with twins, including days when getting out of the house is an endurance feat.

• Tickets –Pay What You Can, £3/£5/£8/£10
• Part of Life’s Fundamentals set of events of the Paisley Book Festival