Hannah Lavery is an award winning poet, playwright, director and performer. Dean is based in Glasgow, and is Co-director of Scottish BAME Writers Network. He is a tutor for Arvon and Poetry School, and a Keats 2020 Poet in Residence at Keats House. Dean regularly performs across the UK, and internationally. Dean's work often deals with themes of gender, identity, race and growing up - and has appeared on BBC One, BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service, and Channel 4. He was named as one of the most influential LGBT people in the UK by the Independent on Sunday. Only on the Weekends is the highly anticipated follow-up to Dean Atta’s breakout YA debut The Black Flamingo, which won the prestigious Stonewall Book Award and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, the CILIP Carnegie Medal and the YA Book Prize.ĭean Atta's debut poetry collection was shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize. How long until he tells Karim - and when will his old life and new life collide? Then, when Mack meets actor Finlay on a film set, he experiences something powerful, a feeling like love at first sight. It's horrible being so far away from Karim, but the worst part is that Karim doesn't make the effort to visit. But when Mack's dad gets a job on a film in Scotland, Mack has to move, and soon he discovers how painful love can be. He has liked Karim for as long as he can remember, and is ecstatic when Karim becomes his boyfriend - it feels like love. Will he choose Karim or Finlay? And can true love last for ever? Fifteen-year-old Mack is a hopeless romantic - he blames the films he's grown up watching. Mack never thought he'd find love, but now two boys want to be with him. The event will be chaired by award winning poet, playwright, performer and director Hannah Lavery.

This is the highly anticipated follow-up to his breakout YA debut The Black Flamingo which is a firm favourite amongst our booksellers. We couldn't be happier to be welcoming Dean Atta to the bookshop for an in-person event to celebrate his newest young adult novel, Only on the Weekends.

Only on the weekends by dean atta