Join us for an evening of reading and discussion with Brigid Lowe, author of Shiver.
After Brigid Lowe’s world was upended, Scotland became her home. Its icy, wild waters a place of visceral relief. Baptising herself into this new life, Brigid set herself a challenge: to swim in a thousand of these spectacular lochs.
Stepping into ice and caves and sacred springs, she swam with birds, conger eels and seals, across forest and mountain and moor, alone and with her children in tow. As she comes to know these secret pools, with their vaulting depths and softer shallows, she walked a line between recklessness and safety, discovering new depths of pain and pleasure, of strength and endurance.
Shiver is a love letter to Caledonia, its flowers and rocks, and to its chill waters.
Brigid grew up in remote Wales of Irish parentage and now lives in Edinburgh with her children. She studied literature at Bangor, completed a doctorate at Oxford, and later lectured at Sheffield and held a fellowship at Trinity College Cambridge. She traces her descent from travellers, circus performers, mill workers and gallowglass warriors. An obsessive wild swimmer, Brigid writes out of an intense relationship with the lochs, hills and elemental beauty of Scotland. Her debut novel, The Bloody Branch, was published by Harvill PRH) in January 2026. Shiver was a winner of The RSL Giles St Aubyn Award for Non-Fiction 2025, gifted to exceptional first-time writers of non-fiction.
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