Carl MacDougall, Edwin Morgan, Liz Lochhead and Iain Banks explore Scottish writing, its heritage and major influences in a landmark series. Carl was born in Glasgow but spent his childhood in ...

Carole Jones teaches literature at the University of Edinburgh. She is author of Disappearing Men: Gender Disorientation in Scottish Fiction 1979-1999 (Rodopi, 2008) and has previously published on ...

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Having read an awful book on holiday in 1989, Quintin Jardine was challenged by his wife to write a better one himself. From that discussion, the 22-book strong Detective Skinner series was born.