Byres Road Book Festival at Hillhead Library – Doug Johnstone

Doug Johnstone is celebrating a landmark twentieth year as a published writer with his twentieth novel, Ghost Notes, which is the seventh in his acclaimed and award-winning Skelfs crime fiction series. His first two novels – Tombstoning and The Ossians – have also been reissued this year with new introductions by Chris Brookmyre and Val McDermid, and he’ll be discussing all of this and much more as he looks back over two decades of murder and mayhem. He’ll also be playing some live music, so a joyous hour is guaranteed. Doug Johnstone is the author of twenty novels, many of which have been bestsellers. The Space Between Us was chosen for BBC Two's Between the Covers, while six of his books have been shortlisted or longlisted for the Theakston Crime Novel of the Year or the McIlvanny Prize for Scottish Crime Novel of the Year. Doug has taught creative writing or been a writer in residence at universities, school, writing retreats, festivals, prisons and a funeral directors. He's also been an arts journalist for over twenty-five years. He is a songwriter and musician with ten albums released, and drummer for the Fun Lovin' Crime Writers.