Stand By: Tron Theatre, 63 Trongate

Four police officers sit in a riot van on stand-by after being called out to a domestic dispute that may turn violent in this brutally authentic story of struggling to remain in control as the community they serve disintegrates around them.

Helen Sedgwick: Waterstones, 174 Argyle Street

Helen Sedgwick discusses her second novel The Growing Season, a book about the consequences of the scientific discovery of artificial, external wombs.

Sedgwick received the Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award in 2012 and published her debut novel, The Comet Seekers in 2016.

An Evening with Shona Kinsella: Waterstones, 351-355 Byres Road

Debut novelist Shona Kinsella is in store to talk about her book, Ashael Rising, which follows Ashael, a hunter-gatherer woman, apprenticed to Bhearra, the healer and spiritual leader of the tribe.

Author Ian Skewis chairs the event.