Authors
Elizabeth Mackintosh was a novelist and playwright who wrote under a number of pseudonyms, most nota …
Iain Maclachlain is an award-winning first-time novelist from Morayshire. He believes passionately i …
Bernard MacLaverty was born in Belfast where he lived until 1975 when he moved, with his wife and fo …
Glasgow-born Alistair MacLean was the hugely successful author of adventure thrillers and spy books, …
Shona MacLean was born in Inverness and raised in various Highland towns, including Muir of Ord, whe …
Sorley MacLean / Somhairle MacGill-Eain
Sorley Maclean (Somhairle MacGill-Eain) is reckoned to be one of the finest poets Scotland has had. …
Claire MacLeary lived for many years in Aberdeen and St Andrews, but describes herself as “a feisty …
Author and poet Anne MacLeod was born in Aberfeldy but now lives near Inverness, where she works as …
Following the US publication of Ken MacLeod’s Fall Revolution series, online magazine salon.com joke …
Aonghas MacNeacail was a poet, journalist, broadcaster and scriptwriter who worked in both English a …
Kevin MacNeil is an award-winning novelist, playwright and poet, originally from the Isle of Lewis i …
David MacPhail left home at eighteen to travel the world and have adventures. After working as a chi …
Catherine MacPhail shot to success when her first children’s novel Run Zan Run won the Kathleen Fidl …
Archie Macpherson was born and raised in Shettleston in the east-end of Glasgow. He was headteacher …
Nikki Magennis is a writer and artist. She writes dirty stories, love stories and even sometimes ero …
Broadcaster and journalist Sally Magnusson has written 10 books, most famously, her Sunday Times bes …
Ian left his Dundee school at the age of fourteen in 1939 and, after a brief period as an evacuee, b …
Michael J Malone is the author of four crime novels featuring DI Ray McBain, who is well on the way …
Iain Maloney is the author of eight books, including the critically acclaimed The Only Gaijin in the …
David (Dave) Manderson was born in Westerton in Glasgow and attended Glasgow Academy in the city’s w …
Bridgeton-born journalist, writer, comedian and community worker Elaine Marney studied Scottish Lite …
Laura Marney is from Glasgow and her comic tales are dotted with the colourful language of the city. …
Philip Marsden is the award-winning author of a number of works of travel, fiction and non-fiction, …
Peter Marshall, a native of the Orkney Islands, has since 2006 been Professor of History at the Univ …
Carrie Marshall is a writer, musician and parent from Glasgow. Her latest book, Small Town Joy: How …
Although he was born in in Singapore in 1938, writer Allan Massie was educated and raised in Aberdee …
Tom Maxwell is a journalist and press officer who grew up in Berwick-upon-Tweed. After graduating fr …
Peter May is a novelist, originally from Glasgow but now living and working in France. He started ou …
Alex McCall grew up in Aberdeen and is currently studying Filmmaking and Screenwriting at the Univer …
In the last few years, the profile of Alexander ‘Sandy’ McCall Smith has reached stratospheric level …
Alan McClure is a writer and musician based in Galloway, south-west Scotland. His creative output is …
Ken McClure was born and raised in Edinburgh. He had the good fortune to be taught by Norman MacCaig …
Karen Grace McCombie is a best-selling children’s and YA novelist, originally from Aberdeen and now …
Crime novelist Val McDermid grew up in Kirkcaldy, and spent a lot of her childhood with her grandpar …
Isobel McDonald is Curator of Social History at Glasgow Museums. Having originally studied archaeolo …
Lesley McDowell is a literary critic for The Herald, The Scotsman and The Independent on Sunday. Her …
Claire McFall is a Scottish writer and former English teacher now living in sunny Colorado. Her firs …
Charles E McGarry is a Scottish author. His first novel in the Leo Moran series of detective fiction …
John McGill was born in Glasgow. He studied for his teaching qualification in Edinburgh, and has tau …
James McGonigal is a poet was a lecturer in English at the University of Glasgow. He was, for many y …
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