A Distant Dublin with Nicola White

Nicola White is a novelist, short fiction writer and essayist with a background in the visual arts. Born in Dublin, she spent some of her formative years in New York. After graduating from Trinity College, she lived in London and Belfast before moving to Glasgow to work as a contemporary art curator, later producing documentaries for the BBC. She won the Scottish Book Trust’s New Writer Award in 2008 and was Leverhulme Writer in Residence at Edinburgh University in 2012. She has published work in a range of journals, anthologies and for broadcast on Radio 4.

Her acclaimed Detective Vincent Swan trilogy is based around unsolved real-life murders from recent history in Ireland 1980's. But buried secrets always rise to the light, and Nicola will be talking about recent developments in these cases