Our Authors
Doug Johnstone
Doug Johnstone is a writer, journalist and musician based in Edinburgh. He’s the author of the novels Tombstoning (2006) and The Ossians (2008), both set in contemporary Scotland and receiving acclaim from the likes of Ian Rankin, Irvine Welsh and Christopher Brookmyre. He is a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist in a band, Northern Alliance, who have released four albums to critical acclaim. He has also released and performed music as The Ossians to tie in with the novel. As a journalist he writes for the likes of The Sunday Times, The Times, Independent on Sunday, The Scotsman and The Herald. He also teaches creative writing at Strathclyde University.
Books by Doug Johnstone
Smokeheads
Four friends, one weekend, one island, gallons of whisky. What could possibly go wrong?
Four Edinburgh friends are getting away from it all for the weekend. Driven by amateur whisky-nut Adam, the late-thirties ex-university mates are heading to Islay, the remote Scottish island world famous for its single malts. What begins as a fun trip, soon turns into a living nightmare as the group uncovers a hidden world of corruption and deadly violence.
Smokeheads is a glimpse into the heart of Scottish darkness, a book which looks at the flipsides of a nation’s mindset. It pitches urban against rural, tourist against local, pragmatism against principle, adventure against safety, love against hate, and it does it all with a huge dram in its hand, a drunken stagger and an amber glow in its fiery belly.
World rights: Faber and Faber
Pub date: Spring 2011
