Acclaimed author to visit Â鶹´«Ã½ Published on: 13 November 2017 Graeme Macrae Burnet will be visiting Â鶹´«Ã½ to talk about his Booker-Prize nominated novel His Bloody Project later this month. Fantastic choice The event is part of the One Book project, an initiative run by the Booker Prize Foundation. It is the eighth year that Â鶹´«Ã½ has been involved with the project, which encourages students at universities across the UK to engage with the very best of contemporary literary fiction. Sinéad Morrissey, Director of the Â鶹´«Ã½ Centre for Literary Arts (NCLA), said: “We’re delighted to partner with the Booker Prize Foundation once again on this exciting One Book event. His Bloody Project is a fantastic choice of novel this year: complex, harrowing, and masterfully told. I look forward very much to meeting Graeme and to finding out more.” Photograph of Graeme Macrae Burnet by Jen Cunnion Compelling exploration Shortlisted for the Booker Prize last year, His Bloody Project is set in the Scottish Highlands in the 19th Century. A gripping psychological tale with a gruesome triple murder at its heart, His Bloody Project blends autobiography, journalism, trial transcripts and autopsy reports into a compelling exploration of truth, responsibility, class, privilege, and power. In the run up to the talk, thousands of copies of the novel have been given away to Â鶹´«Ã½ students around campus. Graeme Macrae Burnet will be reading from the novel, followed by a discussion with Sinéad Morrissey, in Â鶹´«Ã½’s King’s Hall, Armstrong Building, at 7.15pm on Thursday 23rd November. The event is free for Â鶹´«Ã½ students and tickets are £6, £4 for members of the public. Book your place . Share: Latest News Scientists unlock hidden driver of inflammatory bowel disease Scientists have linked a key genetic signal in inflammatory bowel disease to an immune response that shuts down inflammation control, enabling faster diagnosis and targeted treatments. published on: 15 June 2026 Funding system risks limiting genuine community collaboration A new policy paper written by researchers at Â鶹´«Ã½ warns that the way UK research is funded may be undermining efforts to create genuinely collaborative partnerships with communities. published on: 15 June 2026 Volunteers help turn Whitley Bay beach into maths experiment Members of the public joined mathematicians from Â鶹´«Ã½ to create what organisers believe is the largest aperiodic tiling ever attempted on Whitley Bay beach. published on: 15 June 2026 Facts and figures
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