15 READS is a wider reading series inspired by our programme

Each edition is selected and described by Dr Jane McArthur, a writer and arts producer based in Dumfries and Galloway

OUR CURRENT 15 READS

SUMMER 2025

Visceral, indelible landscapes
Altered states of consciousness
Embodied experiences
Reparation
The stuff of living

PREVIOUSLY

Spring 2025

Family,
Making and unmaking,
Threads, Folk narratives,
Accumulations, Memory

Winter 2024

A selection of detective novels reflecting the classic themes of influential twentieth century noir fiction writers

Summer 2024

Tacit knowledge,
Transmission,
Local and rural,
Texture, Threads

Spring 2024

Interior/exterior worlds,
Memory,
Cityscapes,
Ruptures and severances

Winter 23-24

A list of reads for our times selected and described by Jane McArthur - part of our wider 15 Reads series

Autumn 2023

Water, Resilience,
Folk tales, storytelling and the oral tradition, Bearing witness, The collective

Summer 2023

Spring 2023

Autumn 2022

Summer 2022

Spring 2022

Winter 2021

Autumn 2021

Summer 2021

Spring 2021

Autumn 2020

Summer 2020

Spring 2020

Download our 2019 and 2020 lists here: