Authors
George Mackay Brown, who died in 1996, was one of Scotland’s finest and most prolific novelists. He …
Gordon has seven crime and thriller books published to date, along with a number of short stories. H …
Gordon Brown served as Prime Minister of Britain from 2007 to 2010, during which time he is widely c …
Hamish Brown is a mountaineer, lecturer, photographer and poet. He was born in Colombo in Sri Lanka, …
Nora Brown was born in Scotland and moved to London at the age of seventeen to study composing at th …
John Buchan was born in Perth, the eldest son of the Rev. John Buchan. He grew up for a time in Fife …
Peter Burnett was born of a farming family in 1968 and spent his early years in Memsie Aberdeenshire …
Possibly the best-known and most iconic writer from Scotland, Robert Burns continues to fascinate, c …
John Burnside (b. 1955) is the author of fourteen collections of poetry and eleven works of fiction, …
Ron Butlin was appointed the Edinburgh Makar in May 2008, taking over from Valerie Gilles. Butlin, w …
Playwright and artist John Byrne was born and raised in the Ferguslie Park are of Paisley. He attend …
Maiolios Caimbeul, or Myles Campbell, is a Gaelic poet from Staffin on the Isle of Skye. He was born …
Scottish literary historian and novelist Jenni Calder was born in Chicago, but has lived and worked …
Seona Calder was born and raised in Scotland. After studying art, she went on to work as an illustra …
Catriona Lexy Campbell is from the Isle of Lewis and has been working in the Gaelic world for a numb …
Niall Campbell was born in 1984 on the island of South Uist, one of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. …
Fantasy novelist Alan Campbell was born in Falkirk, and studied Computer Science at Edinburgh Univer …
Angus Peter Campbell, or Aonghas Pàdraig Caimbeul in Gaelic, was born near South Boisdale on the Heb …
Corrina is a self-taught illustrator/author with a background in primary education. Having taught ch …
Writer Karen Campbell was born in Paisley, and raised in Glasgow. She studied English, Drama and Fre …
Valerie was born in 1969 and grew up in the Hillfoots town of Tillicoultry, Clackmannanshire where p …
Michael Cannon had an unhappy schooling in the West of Scotland and left with a clutch of poor quali …
Leonie Charlton travelled extensively as a child, living in England, Africa, Wales and Scotland. She …
Francesco Cheynet was born and lives in Rome, Italy, where he is a primary school teacher. He appro …
Catriona Child gained a degree in English from Aberdeen University before completing an MA in creati …
Polly Clark was born in Toronto and lives in Helensburgh on Scotland’s west coast, close to where W. …
Samantha has been a practising visual artist for many years, working across a range of media, includ …
Born in Sheffield, Ajay Close worked as a newspaper journalist, winning several awards, before becom …
Although she is originally from Knaresborough in Yorkshire, children’s author Caroline Clough have l …
Although born in Leicester, science fiction and fantasy author Michael Cobley has lived most of his …
Jenny Colgan is the author of numerous Sunday Times bestselling novels and has won various awards fo …
Arthur Conan Doyle was born and educated in Edinburgh. From 1882 to 1890 he practised medicine in So …
Juliet Conlin was born in London and grew up in England and Germany. She holds an MA in Creative Wri …
Stewart Conn was born in Glasgow, grew up in Ayrshire (the setting for much of his early poetry) and …
Sophie Cooke is an author from Perthshire. Raised in the hamlet of Kilmahog, she went to McLaren Hig …
Linda Cracknell was born in the Netherlands and raised in the south of England, but has lived and wo …
Maggie Craig is a Scottish writer and historian, author of the ground-breaking and acclaimed Damn’ R …
James Crawford is a writer and broadcaster, and the publisher at Historic Environment Scotland. Born …
Robert Crawford is Professor of Modern Scottish Literature at St Andrews University, where he has ta …
Iain Crichton Smith (Iain Mac a’Ghobhainn) was born in Glasgow, Scotland’s second-largest city, but …
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