Authors
Julia is a mother, writer and teacher. She has been longlisted for The Mslexia Novel Prize, The Exet …
Born in Glasgow in 1946, James Kelman left school at fifteen to begin an apprenticeship as a composi …
In 1993, A.L. Kennedy featured on a Granta list of Best Young British Novelists (along with such lum …
In his own words: Life for Scotland’s top travel writer began a long way from the Mediterranean isla …
Philip Kerr was born and raised in Edinburgh, but moved to Northampton when he was 14. He studied La …
Born Jessie Grant Macdonald in an Inverness workhouse in 1916, Jessie Kesson was a novelist and play …
Mairi Kidd is the Director of The Saltire Society. She leads on delivery of the Society’s programmes …
Briefly I was born and went to school in Yorkshire, then agricultural college in Lancashire followed …
Nicolae Klepper is a Romanian-born American author who now lives and works in Edinburgh. He was born …
Edinburgh-based crime writer Alanna Knight has written over forty novels since the publication of he …
William Knox was a Scottish author, journalist and broadcaster. Born in Glasgow in 1928, he went int …
Frank Kuppner was born in Glasgow in 1951 and has lived there ever since. He has been Writer in Resi …
Although born in Aberdeen, historian Angus Konstam was raised in Orkney. He started a naval scholars …
Hannah Lavery is a Scottish poet, playwright and performer. The Drift, her autobiographical spoken w …
Sue Lawrence is one of the UK’s leading cookery writers. After winning BBC’s MasterChef in 1991, she …
In 2002 Liam Leddy’s GP advised him to take up a ‘hobby’. His obsession with reading, having been nu …
Joan Lennon grew up in Canada and arrived in Scotland in 1978. After a year on a Hebridean island, s …
Tom Leonard, the poet, was born in Glasgow and attended Lourdes Secondary School. He then studied at …
William Letford has worked as a roofer, on and off, since he was fifteen years old. He has received …
Douglas Lindsay is a crime writer from Lanarkshire. After studying at the University of Glasgow, he …
Joan Lingard is a name instantly recognisable to those interested in children’s books, although she …
Although he was born in Wales, author Eric Robert Russell Linklater is strongly associated with Aber …
Amy Liptrot has published her work with various magazines, journals and blogs and she has written a …
Lindsay Littleson is a primary school teacher in Renfrewshire, Scotland. Since taking up writing for …
Liz Lochhead is one of Scotland’s best-known poets and dramatists, with her books and poetry attract …
Caroline Logan is a writer of Young Adult Fantasy. Her debut novel, The Stone of Destiny, is the fir …
Kirsty Logan is the author of the novels Now She is Witch, The Gracekeepers, and The Gloaming, the s …
Dane Love was born in Cumnock, Ayrshire. He was educated in the town, followed by Jordanhill College …
Born in Glasgow in 1967, Shari spent her first sixteen years living in Scotland. At age 16 she left …
Roddy Lumsden published ten books of poetry. His last book, So Glad I’m Me (2017), was shortlisted f …
Martin MacIntyre, or Màrtainn Mac an t-Saoir in Scottish Gaelic, grew up in Lenzie, a town on the ou …
Stuart MacBride was born in Dumbarton, but moved to Aberdeen when he was two. His parents run an off …
Poet Norman MacCaig was born in Edinburgh but shared his time between the capital and Assynt in Suth …
Hugh MacDiarmid was just one of the many pseudonyms of Christopher Murray Grieve, from Langholm in D …
George MacDonald was a Scottish poet, fantasy and children’s novelist, and church minister, most fam …
Rod Macdonald is a bestselling author of books focused on diving. His titles are must haves for anyo …
Alan MacGillivray is a teacher, lecturer and poet, born in Fife, raised in Dumfries and now living a …
Martin MacInnes was born in Inverness in 1983. He has an MA from the University of York, has read at …
Academic, writer and broadcaster Pàdraig MacAoidh (Peter Mackay) has been appointed as Scotland’s Ma …
Ross Mackenzie’s latest novel, Shadowsmith, is in bookshops now. Aimed at readers aged 9-12, this c …
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Shola von Reinhold is a Scottish socialite and writer. Shola has been published in the Cambridge Literary Review, The Stockholm Review, was Cove Park’s Scottish Emerging Writer 2018 and recently won a Dewar Award for Literature. Shola is a recent gradu …
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