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Rodge Glass in conversation with David Ian Neville about his book "Joshua in the Sky".
Joshua dies on his birthday.
Joshua dies the day he is born.
Joshua lives for three hours.
Joshua is alive.
Rodge Glass’s nephew Joshua died the same day he was born, from a blood condition they both share. Joshua in the Sky charts the five years around Joshua’s life and death as Rodge attempts to make sense of this loss. A family memoir and a memorial to a short life, it asks the questions: Whose life deserved to be remembered? And how?
Rodge Glass is the award-winning author of eight books across fiction and nonfiction. His biography of Alasdair Gray won a Somerset Maugham Award for nonfiction.
Joshua in the Sky is available from the publisher, Taproot Press, and most bookshops and online booksellers. All author proceeds from Joshua in the Sky will go towards the UCLH Baby Unit who cared for Joshua, the Joshua’s Legacy charity, and to Cure HHT.
The photo of Rodge Glass was taken by Alan Dimmick.
This event was supported by the Scottish Book Trust Live Literature Fund.