My first event of the year will be in March, and I’m kicking it off with a big one: the launch of the paperback edition of PAPERBOY! A finalist for the McIlvanney Prize, listed as a crime and thriller book of the year by the Telegraph and the Sunday Times, PAPERBOY will be available in … More EVENT: Paperboy paperback launch @ The Bookmonger, 12/3/26, 7.30pm
On Friday night at Bloody Scotland crime festival in Stirling, it was my honour and privilege to receive The McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year 2023 for my debut novel SQUEAKY CLEAN. And I’ve only just about picked my jaw up off the floor. In a state of shock, I mumbled out … More THE MCILVANNEY PRIZE 2023
It’s been a brilliant week! SQUEAKY CLEAN was officially published last Thursday on World Book Day, although it’s been sneaking its way into shops since the weekend before. The launch took place at Mount Florida Books in the Southside of Glasgow where I did a couple of readings and answered some very well thought-out questions … More SQUEAKY CLEAN on the shelves, on the radio and in the press
I’m absolutely ecstatic to say SQUEAKY CLEAN has been selected as The Times Crime Book of the Month for March! The Times’ crime fiction reviewer Mark Sanderson writes: “The scabrous comedy and compassion (for his protagonists, the underdog and a rescue puppy called Bruce) make the graphic scenes of torture almost palatable. Squeaky Clean is an amazingly … More The Times Crime Book of the Month
The blog tour for SQUEAKY CLEAN kicks off today, Monday 27th February with podcast Dark Matter Zine, and will be running through to Friday 17th March. The links to each stop are below, which I will continue to update it as we go along. I’m really looking forward to this, and hearing what everyone has … More SQUEAKY CLEAN blog tour
I’ve been sitting on this for ages and now I can finally, finally, say it! The moment I’ve been working towards forever: My debut novel SQUEAKY CLEAN will be published by Pushkin Vertigo next March. SQUEAKY CLEAN is a crime thriller with a dark sense of humour set at a car wash in the east … More SQUEAKY CLEAN out 2nd March 2023
Issue 10 of Shoreline of Infinity is now out, featuring some great sci-fi short stories, flash fictions, and a book review of Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 by yours truly. Shoreline of Infinity is an Edinburgh-based sci-fi magazine. You can get the new issue, and back issues, here. Below is a snippet of what … More Shoreline of Infinity 10
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