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Read moreSarah Smith is a writer from Glasgow whose debut novel, Hear No Evil, was published in 2022 and is inspired by the landmark case of Jean Campbell, the first deaf person to be tried in the High Court.
Hear No Evil was shortlisted for both the Bloody Scotland Debut Crime Novel 2022 and the Historical Writers Association Debut Crown 2022. It was chosen as Waterstone’s Scottish Book of the Month in February 2023.
Sarah’s work has appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies. She has an MLitt in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow and was a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee in 2019.
If you’re a student, researcher, or just a life-long reader, people have always needed libraries, but now the libraries need...
Read moreSarah Smith tells us some of the best Scottish Book Festivals planned for this Spring.
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