Damian Barr is an award-winning writer and broadcaster. His memoir, Maggie & Me, won Stonewall Writer of the Year and Sunday Times Memoir of the Year. It is a Scottish classic. His debut novel, You Will Be Safe Here, was a Radio 4 Book at Bedtime and Book of the Year in the Observer, Guardian and Mail. He’s written columns for The Times and Big Issue and hosted series for Radio 4 including Guide Books and Whose Truth Is It Anyway? He has written several plays for radio. In 2019, Damian brought books back to television with the BBC’s Big Scottish Book Club, now in its fifth series. His legendary Literary Salon ran from 2008-2023, widening the cultural conversation. Damian holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He is a trustee of Gladstone’s Library and a campaigner for libraries. He was born in Bellshill.

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