Luath Authors

Luath Press Authors

Luath Press are proud of our variety of books, and the variety of authors who write for us. If you want to contact one of our authors, please write c/o Luath Press Ltd, 543/2 Castlehill, The Royal Mile, Edinburgh, EH1 2ND, Scotland

Lin Anderson writes crime novels featuring Forensic Scientist Rhona MacLeod.	Tom Atkinson is the founder of Luath Press, and the author of many of our Luath Guides titles.
Lara Boyd's experiences in weaning her children onto good, solid, home-cooked food were the perfect basis for First Foods Fast.	Dave Brown started climbing the Trossachs, the Arrochar Alps, Glencoe and further afield, where he met some of the great characters of the early climbing scene.
John Cairney, 'The Man Who Played Robert Burns', has recently turned his attention to Scottish artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh.	Angus Calder is a freelance writer of articles, poetry more.
Jenni Calder was born in the USA but is now living in Edinburgh.	Alan Cameron lives on the Isle of Lewis, where he makes a living translating English and Italian texts, as well as writing for Luath Press.
Gerry Cambridge, poet and harmonica player, lover of whisky and song.	J Keith Cheetham has enjoyed success with several Luath Press On The Trail of books.

Christine De Luca was born in Shetland in 1947. She moved to Edinburgh to study and worked there as an educationalist. She writes in both English and Shetlandic.
Des Dillon is poet, novelist and writer on BBC Scotland's River City soap.	Anne English has written widely for children, including stories, poems and radio scripts, and the Let's Explore series for Luath.
Brian D Finch is a poet; his first collection for Luath Press is Talking With Tongues.	Alistair Findlay, a West Lothian local, has recently turned his hand to poetry.
Matthew Fitt is an author and poet with a strong love of the Scots Language.	Bashabi Fraser writes of her twin loves of Scotland and India.
Anita Govan has been deeply involved in the artistic community of Edinburgh and Scotland for over sixteen years.

Ann Kelley is a Cornish-based poet, photographer and novelist. Her book The Bower Bird won the Costa category Award in 2007.	Alan Kelly's first novel is the darkly humorous The Tar Factory.
Sharma Krauskopf is writer and speaker on ‘All Things Scottish’, and lighthouses.	Robin Laing is a songwriter and interpreter of traditional Scottish songs.
Russell Lyon is a working vet, and has written extensively on his love of horses. Russell is moving to start a new life in Hong Kong.

Stuart McHardy has been called a lad o pairts, among other things. He lectures on many aspects of Scottish history and culture.	John MacKay is a journalist and newsreader for ScottishTV.
Anne MacLeod works as a dermatologist in the Highlands. Her first novel, The Dark Ship was nominated for Saltire and IMPAC awards.	Karen Ralls-MacLeod, medieval historian and Celtic scholar, was Deputy Director of the Rosslyn Chapel Museum exhibition for six years and has written four books to date.
Bob McLean was a founding member of the Campaign for a Scottish Assembly in 1980. Dr Bob McLean writes and lectures on aspects of Scottish and Irish history.	George W Macpherson has become one of the best known traditional storytellers in Scotland.
Ian R Mitchell has been walking and climbing Scotland's mountains all his life, and his enthusiasm has spawned three books for Luath Press.
Frank Muir is a UK/US resident. He lives in Virginia, but visits Scotland regularly. He holidays in St. Andrews.

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Liz Niven is the Cultural Co-ordinator for Creative Writing in the schools of Dumfries and Galloway, in South-West Scotland.	David Purdy looks at Scotland and Britain's involvement in Europe, and the future of the European Currency, in Eurovision or American Dream?
Gary Robertson is one half of Tribal Tongues, a poetry partnership performing in Dundonian dialect.
James Robertson is an award-winning novelist, poet and publisher.	FadeKe Kokumo Rocks describes herself as an African / Asian / Scottish writer and performance poet. Look out for her new book of poetry Stolen From Africa.
Dilys Rose teaches creative writing at Edinburgh University. Luath Press publish collections of her short stories.	David R Ross, biker historian, wears his passion for Scotland and her history with pride.

Nick Smith has produced several award winning film and television programmes. The characters in his novels are cats, dogs, and other animals - but these are not cute children's books.	Cara Lockhart-Smith is an illustrator based in Berwick-upon-Tweed, and was the artist behind Anne English's Let's Explore Berwick-upon-Tweed.
Donald Smith is writer, theatre director, storyteller and political footsoldier with a keen interest in Scotland's history.	Mark Thomson, until his mid-30s, was a labourer. Now he's a poet, writing about his surroundings: his workplace, the streets, the pub, the scheme.	Roderick Watson teaches at the University of Stirling where he specialises in Scottish literature and has written and lectured widely in this field.
L Colin Wilson's Luath Scots Language CDs are the single-biggest selling item on the Luath website.	Rab Wilson is Scots poet, Rab writes predominantly in Lallans, and his poetry has appeared in some of Scotland's leading poetry magazines, and regularly in the Herald newspaper’s daily poetry column.
Brian Whittingham is a poet - inspired by Absinthe, Impressionist art and Clyde shipbuilding.	Emma Wood, an Englishwoman who settled in the Highlands in 1987, fell in love with the landscape and the peace and quiet.

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