Jenni Fagan: The Delusions

Join us to celebrate one of the mostly hotly anticipated releases in Scottish fiction of 2026, as award-winning author Jenni Fagan shares her latest novel, The Delusions.

Following on from best-selling books including The Panopticon, Luckenbooth, and her searingly honest memoir of growing up in the care system, Ootlin, The Delusions transports us to an imagined afterlife and soul-processing centre, as a mass extinction event threatens to unfurl.

As characters are faced with never seeing their loved ones again, this novel asks big questions about how far we would go for those we love, and what it means to live a good life.