Author Archives: Doug Johnstone

Italian friends! I am coming to your fine country soon to celebrate the publication of Colpisci E Scappa by local heroes CasaSirio. Look, here are my tour dates. Looking forward to catching up with old friends and hopefully new readers. … Continue reading →

Hello American friends! My eighth novel, Crash Land, is published in your glorious land of the free today. Pop into your local bookstore or get it online here. It’ll help distract you from the ongoing catastrofuck of your politics right … Continue reading →

I love islands. I love islands so much I’ve now written three novels set on them, and some short stories. Here is something I wrote for The Royal Literary Fund about how much I love islands.

So our band is playing our first ever show! The Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers will be rocking out at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on Wed 23rd Aug, 9pm in the Spiegeltent. It’s part of the festival’s terrific Unbound programme, … Continue reading →

I have a signed and personalised book for auction over at the wonderful Authors for Grenfell Tower site. There loads of great stuff on offer from hundreds of amazing writers, so do have a browse.

So I’m in a band. Back to drumming for the first time in donkey’s years. It’s a ‘supergroup’ of sorts, made up of crime writers, playing a set of crime-related tunes. Here we are: We rehearsed for the first time … Continue reading →

So the Edinburgh International Book Festival launched their 2017 programme the other day in town, and I have a cheeky wee event, with English author, poet and playwright Barney Norris on Friday 25th August at 2pm. A bit of blurb … Continue reading →

I’m delighted to have a short story in this fine collection, due out in September. Dx

Absolutely thrilled to have this wee book out in the world, from my time as writer in residence at William Purves Funeral Directors last year. Lovely to see so many familiar faces at the launch tonight, at the company’s annual … Continue reading →

I was up early this morning to go and get my picture taken in Stirling Castle along with a bunch of other crime writers and organisers of Bloody Scotland, which launched today. I’ve just realised looking through the programme that … Continue reading →