Richard Strachan

Richard Strachan is a former bookseller, who lives in Edinburgh with his family. His short fiction h …

Zoë Strachan

Zoë Strachan was born in Irvine and grew up in Kilmarnock in Ayrshire. She moved to Glasgow in 1992, …

Charles Stross

Charles Stross, 48, is a full-time science fiction writer and resident of Edinburgh, Scotland. The a …

Charles Stross

Charles Stross is a full-time science fiction writer and resident of Edinburgh, Scotland. The author …

Maud Sulter

Maud Sulter was a visual artist, writer, playwright and cultural historian. She was born in 1960 in …

Anne Swinfen

Ann Swinfen spent her childhood partly in the English Midlands and partly on the east coast of Ameri …

Aline Templeton

Aline Templeton grew up in the East Neuk of Fife and was educated at St Leonards School, St Andrews …

Ruth Thomas

Ruth Thomas is a novelist and short-story writer. Her first story collection was shortlisted for the …

Alice Thompson

Author Alice Thompson was born in Edinburgh, and studied English at Oxford University. Her first art …

Francis George Thompson

Francis George Thompson was born in Stornoway in 1931, and after a career as an electrical engineer, …

Derick S Thomson

Professor Derick S. Thomson, or Ruaraidh MacThòmais in his native Gaelic, was a poet, publisher and …

Marion Todd

Marion grew up in the City of Dundee, now home to the magnificent V&A Museum.  Always a keen wri …

Francine Toon

Francine Toon grew up in Sutherland and Fife, Scotland. Her poetry, written as Francine Elena, has a …

David Torrance

David Torrance is a constitutional specialist at the House of Commons Library and a widely published …

Jeff Torrington

Jeff Torrington wrote just two novels, but his first, (Swing Hammer Swing! won the Whitbread award i …

David Toulmin

Born John Reid on a farm at Rathen in Aberdeenshire, David Toulmin was a farm labourer from the age …

Nigel Tranter

Nigel Tranter was born in Glasgow, but schooled at George Heriot’s in Edinburgh. His childhood inter …

Alexander Trocchi

Alexander Trocchi was a prolific writer of novels and essays, of porn (for the Olympia Press in Pari …

Tim Turnbull

Tim Turnbull’s collection Stranded in Sub-Atomica was nominated for the Felix Dennis award for best …

Zoe Venditozzi

Zoe Venditozzi was born in 1975 and grew up in a small village in North East Fife. After graduating …

Shola von Reinhold

Shola von Reinhold is a Scottish socialite and writer. Shola has been published in the Cambridge Lit …

Alan Warner

Wining a Somerset Maugham award for Morvern Callar, the Encore Award for These Demented Lands and th …

Douglas Watt

Douglas Watt was born in Edinburgh and brought up there and in Aberdeen. He was educated at Edinburg …

Roseanne Watt

Roseanne Watt is a writer, filmmaker and musician from Shetland. Her dual-language debut collection, …

Irvine Welsh

Violent, loud, obscene; funny, honest, intelligent – Irvine Welsh’s literature is all this and more. …

Louise Welsh

After Graduating from Glasgow University, Louise Welsh realised she had serious aspirations to becom …

Todd Westbrook

Todd is a writer lucky enough to have appeared in newspapers, magazines, agencies and online outlets …

Marianne Wheelaghan

Marianne Wheelaghan is from Leith, Edinburgh. She left home when she was seventeen and lived in Engl …

Brian Whittingham

Brian Whittingham left school at 15 and entered into the world of John Brown’s shipyard as an appren …

Martin Widmark

Martin Widmark is the bestselling Swedish children’s author of over 100 books. His titles consistent …

Luke Williams

Luke Williams was born in 1977, and raised in Fife. He studied at Edinburgh University, and later re …

Alette J Willis

Alette J Willis is a storyteller and winner of the Kelpies Prize for her début novel. She was born i …

Lorraine Wilson

Lorraine is an award-winning writer, biologist, herder of cats and drinker of tea. Having spent year …

Kirsti Wishart

Kirsti has a Ph.D in Scottish Literature from the University of St Andrews and received a New Writer …

Olga Wojtas

Olga Wojtas is an unconventional – and very witty – writer of postmodern crime fiction whose surreal …

Andrew Wolffe

Andrew Wolffe was born and raised in Gatehouse of Fleet, south west Scotland. A graduate of Edinburg …

James Yorkston

James Yorkston is a singer-songwriter and author from the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. Since signing …

Matthew Zajac

Matthew Zajac grew up in Inverness and studied drama at Bristol University. He had worked as an acto …