Jenni Fagan - Edinburgh's Indie Bookshops

On 15th April 2013 Jenni Fagan was named as one of Granta Magazines Best Young British Novelists.
To celebrate Independent Booksellers' Week, in this film Jenni talks about her favourite indies in Edinburgh.
Jenni Fagan was born in Livingston, Scotland, and now lives in Fife. She graduated from Greenwich University with the highest possible mark for a student of Creative Writing, and won a scholarship to the Royal Holloway MFA. A published poet, she has won awards from Arts Council England, Dewar Arts, and Scottish Screen among others. She has been nominated for the Pushcart prize twice and shortlisted for the Dundee International Book Prize. Jenni works as a writer in residence, in hospitals and prisons. The Panopticon was selected as a Waterstones 11 debut of the year when published in hardback in 2012.
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Praise for The Panopticon and Jenni Fagan:
'Jenni Fagan's The Panopticon is a terrific book in all the senses of the word terrific, and I am still reeling from reading it...A shining, vigorous work...I love it.'
ALI SMITH
'The term "stunning debut novel" doesn't even begin to cover The Panopticon. Each page sparkles with the ebullient and sinister magic of great storytelling, culminating in the same impact as the first books of Kelman, Gray and Warner. An utterly magnificent achievement. The best debut novel I've read this year.'
IRVINE WELSH
'An astonishing debut, I have a feeling that Fagan is a name we will hear more of.'
JACKIE KAY