Talk with authors Lisa Ballantyne and Elise Hugueny-Léger

Scottish author Lisa Ballantyne and French author Elise Hugueny-Léger will be at the Institut français d’Écosse to talk about their novels and connections to France, and to sign copies of their books.

Lisa Ballantyne is the internationally bestselling author of five novels. Her debut, The Guilty One was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award, Longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Theakston Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year Award, and was also a Richard and Judy Book Club bestseller. Her second novel, Good Bad Love, (published as Everything She Forgot in America) was a USA Today bestseller. She has been a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellow in France, supported by Scottish Book Trust and Creative Scotland. Her work has been translated into nearly thirty languages. Her most recent novel is The Innocent One, published in 2023. She lives in Glasgow.

Elise Hugueny-Léger moved to England in 2002 to work as a French language assistant. She earned her PhD at Durham University (2004–2007), focusing on the works of Annie Ernaux, and joined the French Department at the University of St Andrews in 2008. In 2024 she published her first creative writing non-fiction, Twenty twenty: petites traversées franco-britanniques (Editions Créaphis), a tale of the constant in-between, between one country, France, and another, the United Kingdom, between two cultures, but also between the outside world and the world of thoughts and memories. 

Event chaired by Magnus Linklater, CBE, journalist

In partnership with the Edinburgh Bookshop