Authors
D A (Dawn Ann) Nelson was born in Glasgow and grew up south of the city in the village of Neilston. …
Born in 1966 and brought up in Dalkeith, Mike is now based in Edinburgh, after spending time living …
Journalist Andrew Nicoll has lived in Broughty Ferry, near Dundee, for most of his life. After a bri …
Liz Niven was born and raised in Glasgow. After qualifying as an English teacher she left Glasgow an …
Maggie O’Farrell was born in Coleraine in Northern Ireland in 1972, and was raised in Wales and Scot …
Andrew O’Hagan was born in Glasgow but raised in the Scottish New Town of Irvine. He studied English …
Anthony O’Neill is the son of an Irish policeman and an Australian stenographer. He was born in Melb …
Margaret Oliphant was a novelist and historical writer who was born in Wallyford in 1828. She is bes …
Deborah Orr was an award-winning journalist, whose work regularly appeared in the GUARDIAN, the INDE …
Adam Oyebanji is an SF/Crime novelist whose work blends thrilling plots with thought-provoking ideas …
Janet Paisley was born in Essex but raised in Avonbridge in central Scotland. She was a school teach …
Alan Parks has worked in the music industry for over twenty years. His debut novel Bloody January wa …
Heather Parry is a Glasgow-based writer and editor. Her debut novel, Orpheus Builds a Girl, was shor …
Born in Dundee, Don Paterson is an accomplished poet, author and playwright, as well as a jazz guita …
From industrial designer to tour guide to gardener; Alistair’s life has taken him through many twist …
Mary Paulson-Ellis was born in Glasgow and studied Politics and Sociology at Edinburgh University. S …
BETH PEARSON is an award-winning graduate of the Glasgow School of Art. She has worked on pre-produc …
Michael Pedersen is a Scottish poet and author. His acclaimed prose debut, Boy Friends, was publishe …
Sue Peebles was born in Arbroath in 1955. She spent some of her childhood in Detroit before returnin …
Stef Penney won the 2006 Cost Book Award for her début novel The Tenderness of Wolves. Born in Edinb …
Historical detective novelist Anne Perry was born in London in 1938, the daughter of an English phys …
Gillian Philip was born in Glasgow, the daughter of an Episcopalian priest. She moved in Aberdeen in …
Alycia Pirmohamed is a Canadian-born poet living in Scotland. She completed a Ph.D. at the Universit …
Polly Pullar is a naturalist, conservationist, writer, photographer and wildlife rehabilitator. She …
Poet Tom Pow was born in Edinburgh in 1950. After studying at St Andrews University, he taught Engli …
Alex Preston was born in 1979. He lives in London with his wife and son. He used to work in the hedg …
An innovative and prolific poet, Richard Price rose to prominence in 2005, when his first collection …
This profile has been written by Simon Puttock Chapter One: In Which I am Born And Embark Upon My Ve …
R. M. Murray is founding director and Head of Visual Art & Literature at An Lanntair arts centre …
Hannu Rajaniemi is a science fiction writer, originally from Finland but now living and writing in E …
Chitra Ramaswamy is an award-winning journalist with more than ten years’ experience. She cut her te …
The Govan-born osteopath and acupuncturist runs a large and successful osteopath centre in the west …
Born and raised in Dumfries-shire, in south-west Scotland, author Eileen Ramsay is a former schoolte …
As known for his temper and acerbic, no-nonsense manner of speaking as his culinary skills, Gordon R …
Ian Rankin grew up in Cardenden in Fife, where he was locally educated before going on to study at E …
Catherine Rayner is an award-winning author and illustrator. She studied Illustration at Edinburgh C …
Edinburgh-based author was born and raised in Switzerland. She studied English and German at Zurich …
Sue Reid Sexton is a writer based in Glasgow, whose first novel, Mavis’s Shoe, was published in Marc …
Poet, essayist and translator, Alastair Reid was born in 1926 in Whithorn in Wigtownshire. After ser …
Chick-lit author Carmen Reid was raised on a farm near Montrose, but the self-confessed urbanite esc …
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A Chaos of Light: New Writing Scotland
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David Robinson Reviews: To See Ourselves by Alistair Moffat
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Iain Maloney
Iain Maloney is the author of eight books, including the critically acclaimed The Only Gaijin in the Village (Birlinn, 2020), a memoir about his life in rural Japan. He is also a freelance editor and journalist, mainly for The Japan Times. He was born …
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