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I was up at the National Museum of Scotland today, plotting Written In Blood, my crime writing workshop as part of RebusFest on 1st July. Lots of death and crime for inspiration up there, it’s gonna be a LOT of … Continue reading →

  I’m delighted to be taking part in RebusFest, a weekend of events celebrating 30 years of yer man. I’m not at the whisky masterclass, sadly, but I am conducting a crime writing workshop at the National Museum of Scotland … Continue reading →

Here’s my latest book reviews in The Big Issue magazine, cracking fiction in the shape of Dalila (Jonathan Cape) by Jason Donald and Virgin and Other Stories (Granta) by April Ayers Lawson.    

Box of books, out May 4th.

I’m at the Aye Write festival in Glasgow on Sunday evening, talking with Michael J. Malone and Louise Beech about thriller writing. Come along, folks!

Here’s a fun wee thing I recorded for the Royal Literary Fund about why I write. WARNING: Contains my voice.

New issue of Gutter Magazine is out. I have a story in there called ‘Moby Dickheads’. It is quite nasty.‬

Heading up to the debut year of Granite Noir in Aberdeen this weekend, cannae wait! Appearing on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning at The Lemon Tree. Check out the whole programme here. Loads of great crime writers. See yeh there!

Lookit, the paperbacks of Crash Land exist! With the radically new cover (not). Not out till May 4th, but they’ll have copies at festival and bookshop appearances before then.

So there’s been a ton of coverage for Crash Land since I last rounded stuff up. Here is all that guff in one place: A cracking Author in the Spotlight interview over at my local Portobello Book Blog. I talk … Continue reading →