Authors
Orla Broderick is a single mother living with her daughter and dog on the beautiful Isle of Skye. Sh …
Football, religion, a dark and sometimes violent sense of humour are the hallmarks of Christopher Br …
Nick Brooks was born and still lives in Glasgow. He achieved a First Class Honours Degree in English …
Gareth Brown’s debut novel – The Book of Doors – was first published in the UK (Bantam) and USA (Wil …
George Mackay Brown, who died in 1996, was one of Scotland’s finest and most prolific novelists. He …
Gordon has seven crime and thriller books published to date, along with a number of short stories. H …
Gordon Brown served as Prime Minister of Britain from 2007 to 2010, during which time he is widely c …
Hamish Brown is a mountaineer, lecturer, photographer and poet. He was born in Colombo in Sri Lanka, …
Raised in Edinburgh, Marianne Brown spent many years working as a journalist in Southeast Asia and l …
Nora Brown was born in Scotland and moved to London at the age of seventeen to study composing at th …
John Buchan was born in Perth, the eldest son of the Rev. John Buchan. He grew up for a time in Fife …
Fi Buchanan is a food writer and chef who owned Glasgow’s legendary Heart Buchanan café and deli. Wi …
Peter Burnett was born of a farming family in 1968 and spent his early years in Memsie Aberdeenshire …
Possibly the best-known and most iconic writer from Scotland, Robert Burns continues to fascinate, c …
John Burnside (b. 1955) is the author of fourteen collections of poetry and eleven works of fiction, …
Pamela Butchart is a teacher and the writer of many award-winning books, including The Spy Who Loved …
Ron Butlin was appointed the Edinburgh Makar in May 2008, taking over from Valerie Gilles. Butlin, w …
Playwright and artist John Byrne was born and raised in the Ferguslie Park are of Paisley. He attend …
Maiolios Caimbeul, or Myles Campbell, is a Gaelic poet from Staffin on the Isle of Skye. He was born …
Scottish literary historian and novelist Jenni Calder was born in Chicago, but has lived and worked …
Seona Calder was born and raised in Scotland. After studying art, she went on to work as an illustra …
Catriona Lexy Campbell is from the Isle of Lewis and has been working in the Gaelic world for a numb …
Niall Campbell was born in 1984 on the island of South Uist, one of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. …
Fantasy novelist Alan Campbell was born in Falkirk, and studied Computer Science at Edinburgh Univer …
Angus Peter Campbell, or Aonghas Pàdraig Caimbeul in Gaelic, was born near South Boisdale on the Heb …
Corrina is a self-taught illustrator/author with a background in primary education. Having taught ch …
Writer Karen Campbell was born in Paisley, and raised in Glasgow. She studied English, Drama and Fre …
Karen Campbell is the author of nine novels. A former police officer, then Glasgow City Council pres …
Valerie was born in 1969 and grew up in the Hillfoots town of Tillicoultry, Clackmannanshire where p …
Michael Cannon had an unhappy schooling in the West of Scotland and left with a clutch of poor quali …
Eliza Chan is a Scottish-born speculative fiction author who writes about East Asian mythology, Brit …
Leonie Charlton travelled extensively as a child, living in England, Africa, Wales and Scotland. She …
Catriona Child gained a degree in English from Aberdeen University before completing an MA in creati …
Polly Clark was born in Toronto and lives in Helensburgh on Scotland’s west coast, close to where W. …
Samantha has been a practising visual artist for many years, working across a range of media, includ …
Born in Sheffield, Ajay Close worked as a newspaper journalist, winning several awards, before becom …
Although she is originally from Knaresborough in Yorkshire, children’s author Caroline Clough have l …
Although born in Leicester, science fiction and fantasy author Michael Cobley has lived most of his …
Jenny Colgan is the author of numerous Sunday Times bestselling novels and has won various awards fo …
Arthur Conan Doyle was born and educated in Edinburgh. From 1882 to 1890 he practised medicine in So …
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