ARGONAUT BOOKS

Join us for an evening with Missouri Williams, author of 'The Doloriad' to talk all about her new book, 'The Vivisectors'.

This event will be chaired by Heather Darwent, author of 'A Sharp Scratch' and 'The Things We Do To Our Friends'.

This event will take place just up the road from us at Lounge 33 ( 373 -375 Leith Walk, Edinburgh EH6 8SE ) 

Tickets to this event are free and the talk will be followed by a book signing.

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In a famed but crumbling university city overrun by vegetation, where power is held in a fragile balance between the academics and a contingent of rogue gardeners, Agathe spends her days listlessly propping up the career of her fraudulent professor boss. One day, a campus scandal erupts: Adam, a contrarian and the pet student of her boss, comes into heated conflict with a rising young professor, with both men claiming discrimination.

As the crisis consumes the university, Agathe’s boss instructs her to gather information by befriending Adam. Agathe soon finds herself both caught up in the events tearing the city apart and increasingly drawn towards the alluring student at the heart of it all. But can anyone be taken at their word in a struggle over the truth?

Coursing with icy suspense and rendered with violent precision, The Vivisectors is a new kind of love story for a broken era. Missouri Williams holds up a mirror to humanity’s most intimate contradictions in a novel of blazing spiritual reckoning.