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4.00pm - Samantha Dooey-Miles & Irene Paterson: New Voices on Crime and Modern Life

£10.00

Venue: Station House Cookery School, St Mary St, Kirkcudbright DG6 4DN

Join two emerging and award-winning writers talk about their latest books. Samantha Dooey-Miles’s first novel Under the Hammer explores the housing crisis, murdering landlords and female rage with Hamilton as the backdrop; she is a winner of the Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award. Irene Paterson, a crime writer based in Dumfries, first novel Liar Thief is a psychological suspense thriller; she is the winner of the Black Spring Press New Crime Writer Award.

Venue: Station House Cookery School, St Mary St, Kirkcudbright DG6 4DN

Join two emerging and award-winning writers talk about their latest books. Samantha Dooey-Miles’s first novel Under the Hammer explores the housing crisis, murdering landlords and female rage with Hamilton as the backdrop; she is a winner of the Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award. Irene Paterson, a crime writer based in Dumfries, first novel Liar Thief is a psychological suspense thriller; she is the winner of the Black Spring Press New Crime Writer Award.

Samantha Dooey-Miles writes fiction that explores the significance seemingly small moments can have and how characters react in times of high emotion. She is particularly interested in shame, embarrassment and female rage. Her stories have been published in New Writing Scotland, Gutter and Postbox; she is also a performer and Under the Hammer is her first novel.

Irene Paterson is a crime writer based in Dumfries and Galloway. She is involved in several writer networks and was one of the organisers of the inaugural Moffat Crime Writing Festival in 2025. Liar Thief is her first novel.