Brian Ruckley

Scottish fantasy novelist Brian Ruckley was born and raised in Edinburgh. After studying at Edinburgh and Stirling Universities, he travelled and took on a number of diverse jobs, including researching gibbons in the rain-forests of Borneo. He later moved to London, and in 2003 he decided to concentrate on his writing, supporting himself as a freelance environmental consultant. Ruckley now lives in Edinburgh with his fiancée.

He has written two novels in his Godless World trilogy, and his website includes extended essays and maps to his novels. His first novel was Winterbirth, in 2007. In 2011, he is publishing a horror-fantasy set in 19th century Edinburgh, The Edinburgh Dead.