Doug Johnstone

This is published this weekend. I have a short story in there called ‘Painting the Forth Bridge’. It is nasty. Enjoy! Dx

I’m delighted to be appearing at the Durham Book Festival for the first time, appearing on Sat 14th October with the inimitable Louise Welsh. Details here.

Here I am being interviewed over at the MilanoNero website. Dinnae worry, I didn’t try to speak Italian, likes. I talked about noir cinema, Edinburgh as a backdrop, all that guff.

Hot on the heels of its release in Italy, HIT & RUN is now published in paperback in America today! Please drive safely to your local bookstore and pick up a copy, or get it online here. Cheers! Dx

I’m heading to hideous Bute for Bute Noir this weekend, cannae wait! Sixteen crime writers at various events all over Rothesay. There will be chatting and quizzing and singing and drinking and shenanigans, no doubt. See yeh there!

Here’s a terrific review for Colpisci e Scappa (Hit & Run to you) on esteemed Italian blog MilanoNera. Google translate threw out this sentence: ‘It is a bruise from Edinburgh.’ Which is probably not strictly accurate, but also kind of perfect. Cheers!

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. Bella!

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 now, I promise.

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, free cabaret events every night. We are not cabaret though, we are fucking rawk! And some acoustic stuff, likes. Anyway, it’ll be a hoot. Here is a daft preview of it in The Skinny.

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