In conversation with Rodge Glass and Ross Wilcock on grief, life lessons and memoir writing. Rodge Glass is the author of eight published books. These include the novels No Fireworks, Hope for Newborns and Bring Me the Head of Ryan Giggs, the collection Stories for the EasyJet Generation, a graphic novel, Dougie’s War: A Soldier’s Story, and Alasdair Gray: A Secretary’s Biography, which won a Somerset Maugham Award for Nonfiction. Rodge’s recent work includes Michel Faber: The Writer & his Work (2023) and Joshua in the Sky: A Blood Memoir (2024), a chapter of which, ‘On the Covenant’, won the Anne Brown Essay Prize for Scotland.