Hollie McNish: Brand New Book Tour!

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Starts 7.00pm | Tickets £17.50 | Support from Michael Pedersen | Theatre | Age Guidance 14+

The title is still under-wraps but Hollie is back with a brand-new book tour in Autumn 2025. A Sunday Times bestselling author, chatter and poetry lover. Expect strong language and adult content, gift-wrapped in her much-loved poetry as she reads from this brand-new collection about love, loss, wolves and warm morning croissants.

Hollie McNish is a poet and author based between Glasgow and Cambridge. She was the first poet to record at Abbey Road Studios, London and won the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry for her poetic parenting memoir. This is titled Nobody Told Me – of which The Scotsman stated ‘The World Needs this Book’. She has published five further collections of poetry – Papers, Cherry Pie, Plum, and Slug and Lobster, both Sunday Times bestsellers. Her next book is out in October 2025. She loves writing.

“like Pam Ayres on acid” – Lemn Sissay
“bold, hilarious and tender” – Salena Godden
“Her writing is sublime” – Ellie Taylor
“Makes me cry and howl with laughter” – Paapa Essiedu
“One of the best poets we have” – Matt Haig

Hollie McNish Brand New Tour

Support is from Michael Pedersen

Michael Pedersen is a prize-winning Scottish poet and author. Moreover, he is the Writer in Residence at The University of Edinburgh and the Edinburgh Makar (Poet Laureate). His prose debut, Boy Friends, was published by Faber & Faber to rave reviews and was a Sunday Times Critics’ Choice. Additionally, he’s unfurled three collections of poetry, the most recent being The Cat Prince & Other Poems — which won the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Best Poetry 2023. Notably, Pedersen has twice been shortlisted for the Forward Prizes for Poetry and The Scottish National Book Awards. He has also won a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship. His work has attracted praise markedly from the likes of: Stephen Fry, Shirley Manson, Jackie Kay, Irvine Welsh, Sara Pascoe, Nicola Sturgeon & many more. His debut novel (Muckle Flugga) was published by Faber in May 2025.

“Uncommonly romantic, irreverent and, at times, laugh out loud funny” Shirley Manson
“Enchanting…astonishingly compelling…sparklingly written…rare and to be treasured” Stephen Fry
“A master of words. He plays them like music.” Kae Tempest

Hollie McNish support Michael Pedersen stood in front of a lighthouse wearing a purple shirt.

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