Authors
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 …
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. …
Francesca is an author and academic. She writes historical fiction. Her latest novel is Saltblood (B …
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 …
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Archie Macpherson
Archie Macpherson was born and raised in Shettleston in the east-end of Glasgow. He was headteacher of Swinton School, Lanarkshire, before he began his broadcasting career at the BBC in 1969. It was here that he became the principal commentator and pre …
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HarperCollins
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