Nadia Farouk’s stories are set in the streets around the old fish market.
Port Aurel writer Nadia Farouk has won the national prize for a first book with her collection of stories, "Low Tide".
The twelve stories are set in the streets around the old fish market, where Farouk grew up. The judges called the book "funny, sad and full of the smell of the sea".
Farouk, a former nurse, wrote most of the stories on night shifts. She will read from the book at the central library next week.
The highlight is a 19th-century pilot boat, restored and suspended from the roof.
Screenings will take place in five cinemas and, for the first time, on the harbour wall.
Residents chose the themes, from the tram that once ran here to the birds of the estuary.
The concert marks the start of work on the new harbour.
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