Doug Johnstone

And I’m delighted to be appearing at the Birnam Book Festival for the first time! My event is launching the festival on Friday 23rd October at 7.30pm, talking to Jamie Jauncey. The whole festival programme is terrific, all details and tickets here. 

I’m also excited to be appearing at The Stewartry Literary Society in Broughton House, Kirkcudbright on Tuesday 20th October at 2.30pm. I’ll be chatting about twenty years of murder and mayhem, and playing a couple of solo tunes too, I reckon. More details are here. 

I’m appearing at my local Portobello Book Festival this Saturday October 3rd at 7pm. I’ll be chatting to old pal Mary Paulson-Ellis about all things Skelfs, then playing a few songs with my son Aidan. Tickets are FREE for all events at the festival, but they’re going fast, so get on it. 

I am gobsmacked and beyond excited at being picked for this Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature residency. Two weeks in October/November in Scotland with two Japanese writers, Eight Tenkawa and Heisuke Kitazawa – one week in Edinburgh then a week at Moniack Mhor in the Highlands. Then myself and Morag Hood are off to Okayama in Japan for two weeks in March next year. There will be events and cultural activities in both places, as well as time to write and explore. Pretty damn amazing. I cannot wait! 

I had a wonderful chat with old friend and all-round legend Val McDermid for the Royal Literary Fund’s Collected podcast. You can listen wherever you get your podcasts, or check out here for loads more fantastic episodes.

I wrote a thing for Orenda Books about some great Scottish novels. Check them out here.

If you want a laugh, check out me trying to answer questions about my Skelfs series and getting some wrong. Any superfans out there think you can get them all right?

Got LOADS of festivals lined up for September, details and ticket info for all of them are on my Events page. Can’t wait to get on the road.

The absolute legend Anne Cater has organised this terrific blog tour for Ghost Notes. We’re a few days in and the book is going down a storm, which is lovely. Check out the dates below.