13/08/2026
📚 BOOK LAUNCH — Something Like Happiness by Tom Newlands
We're delighted to welcome one of Scotland's most exciting literary voices to Bigglestones.
Tom Newlands arrived with Only Here, Only Now — Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year, winner of the McKitterick Prize, and one of the most acclaimed debuts in recent Scottish fiction. Now he returns with his hotly anticipated second novel, Something Like Happiness.
It's the story of Frazer and Caitlin: childhood sweethearts in a struggling Scottish new town, raising their young son and caught between the dream of a better life and the pull of the place they've always known. Tender, funny and heartbreakingly real — a portrait of love, family and belonging in modern Scotland that critics are already calling the work of one of the brightest talents of his generation.
Join us for an evening with Tom — a chat about the book, your questions, and signed copies on the night.
🗓 Wednesday 19th August, 6.30pm
📍 Bigglestones Books, 57 Glassford Street, Glasgow
🎟 Tickets: https://www.bigglestones.com/shop/book-launch-something-like-happiness-by-tom-newlands/
