Aidan Smith

Born and brought up in Edinburgh, a journalist since leaving school, Aidan Smith started out as an ambulance-chasing cub-reporter for the Dalkeith Advertiser, moved on to the Edinburgh Evening News, then Scotland’s biggest selling paper the Daily Record and back to Edinburgh six years ago with The Scotsman.

Since 2004 he has been Senior Feature Writer at Scotland On Sunday, while continuing to write a weekly (Hibs-dominated) football column for The Scotsman. In the most recent Bank of Scotland Press Awards, he was nominated for Arts and Entertainment Writer of the Year.

Books by Aidan Smith

HeartfeltHeartfelt

Fever Pitch meets ‘Faking It’ – a Hibs supporter follows city rivals Hearts for a season

You can change your house, your car, your political affiliations and your partner, but your football team is one of life’s constants, right? Wrong. What if you were to change sides, sleep with the enemy, sup Bovril from the devil’s cup? Aidan Smith, a lifelong Hibs fan, takes up the challenge ...

‘Riveting’
Scotland on Sunday

‘An excellent writer … It’s good to be able to report that this book is a decided triumph’
Irvine Welsh, The Scotsman

World Rights: Birlinn

Aidan Smith is represented at Jenny Brown Associates by Stan - .

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