Linda Cracknell Linda Cracknell has built up an impressive track record since winning the Macallan/Scotland on Sunday short story competition in 1998. Her first collection, Life Drawing (11:9, 2000), was shortlisted for the Saltire First Book Award. She was a...
Henry Coles Henry Coles is one of the Scottish Book Trust’s “New Writers” of 2023, a SCWBI “Undiscovered Voices 2024” winner, and has been shortlisted and longlisted for other prizes including The Times/Chickenhouse Prize, The Bath Children’s Novel Award, Wells Book...
Polly Clark Polly Clark is the author of three novels and four collections of poetry. She won an Eric Gregory Award for her first poetry collection, Kiss (Bloodaxe, 2000) and her second Take Me With You (Bloodaxe, 2005) was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. Her...
Shaun Bythell Shaun runs Wigtown’s The Bookshop, the largest second-hand bookshop in Scotland set in its only officially designated ‘National Book Town’. When not working amongst The Bookshop’s mile of shelving, Shaun’s hobbies include eavesdropping on customers,...
The estate of George Mackay Brown George Mackay Brown (1921 – 1996) was one of the greatest Scottish writers of the twentieth century. A prolific poet, admired by such fellow poets as Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney, he was also an accomplished novelist, dramatist and a...
