Authors
Juliet Conlin was born in London and grew up in England and Germany. She holds an MA in Creative Wri …
Stewart Conn was born in Glasgow, grew up in Ayrshire (the setting for much of his early poetry) and …
Sophie Cooke is an author from Perthshire. Raised in the hamlet of Kilmahog, she went to McLaren Hig …
Emma Cowing is an award-winning journalist and author. She has written for a wide number of publicat …
Linda Cracknell was born in the Netherlands and raised in the south of England, but has lived and wo …
Maggie Craig is a Scottish writer and historian, author of the ground-breaking and acclaimed Damn’ R …
James Crawford is a writer and broadcaster, and Editor-at-Large at Birlinn Ltd. Born in the Shetland …
Robert Crawford is Professor of Modern Scottish Literature at St Andrews University, where he has ta …
Iain Crichton Smith (Iain Mac a’Ghobhainn) was born in Glasgow, Scotland’s second-largest city, but …
Lyndsey is a Scottish author published in over eighty magazines and anthologies, including Apex, Ana …
Best known for this Dr Findlay series of novels, Archibald Joseph Cronin was a doctor, novelist, dra …
Mason Cross is the author of the Carter Blake thriller series. The first book, The Killing Season, w …
Jim Crumley has written more than thirty books, mostly on the wildlife and wild landscape of his nat …
Born in Ayr but educated at Eton and Edinburgh University, Charles Cumming is a writer of three spy …
Catherine Czerkawska is a multi-award-winning novelist and playwright based in Ayrshire, where she h …
William Dalrymple was born in East Lothian but now divides his time between London and Dehli, India. …
William Dalrymple is the bestselling author of In Xanadu, City of Djinns, From the Holy Mountain, Th …
Alan Dapre is the author of more than fifty books for children. He has also written over one hundred …
Peter Davidson was born in Scotland in 1957. He is currently Professor of Renaissance Studies at the …
Robert Davidson is a writer and editor based in Highland Scotland. Originally a civil engineer, most …
Toni Davidson lives and works in Glasgow, but was born in Ayr in 1965. He has written two books – th …
Elspeth Davie, née Dryer, was born in Kilmarnock in 1918. Her father was a Scottish minister; her mo …
Carol Anne Davis is a writer of crime fiction- and non-fiction from Dundee. She left school aged jus …
Born in Bathgate but raised in Glasgow, Margaret Thomson Davis was a children’s and Red Cross nurse …
Nina de la Mer was born in East Kilbride, and studied Modern Languages at the University of Sussex. …
Poet Christine De Luca was born and raised in Waas in Shetland, the daughter of a school headmaster. …
Anna Deacon has worked as a photographer for over a decade following a career in the music industry …
Born in Melbourne, Australia, Meaghan Delahunt has lived in Edinburgh for around 15 years and now le …
Born Elizabeth Dodd in 1906, Lavinia Derwent is from the Cheviot hills near Jedburgh. A writer and b …
Isla Dewar was born in Edinburgh. Prior to writing and publishing her novels Isla wrote articles for …
Dave was born in Giffnock on the south side of Glasgow in 1951. He was one of four children. His mot …
Des Dillon grew up in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire. He read English at Strathclyde University and started …
Emily Dodd is passionate about science, wildlife and storytelling. She is a screenwriter for CBeebie …
Robert Dodds was born in England and grew up in Yorkshire and Kent with his parents, a neurotic dog, …
Writer and publisher Jennifer Doherty was born in Lanarkshire, but regularly visited the Scottish Bo …
Chris Dolan is an author, playwright and literary critic from Glasgow. Dolan is best known for his p …
Children’s fantasy author Lari Don was born in Chile, and travelled widely in South and Central Amer …
Edinburgh-born David Donachie is a historical novelist with a particular interest in naval history i …
Born in North London, Julia Donaldson now lives and works in Glasgow. While studying French and Dram …
Anne Donovan grew up in Coatbridge, a town in North Lanarkshire. She is best known for her first nov …
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