John Aberdein

John Aberdein was born and educated in Aberdeen and now lives in Hoy. He worked fishing herring and scallops before teaching English and outdoor education, becoming the first person to kayak round mainland Scotland. Active in politics – he was a member of the Kirkland Five who campaigned for more democratic schools and a main organiser of Labour’s move to ditch nuclear power in 1985 and ‘86 – John  stood as a Labour candidate in the 1987 and 1992 general elections for the constituency of Orkney and Shetland. John’s debut novel Amande’s Bed won the Saltire First Book of the Year Award in 2005 and he was a runner-up in the inaugural Scotsman Orange Short Story Competition. His long-awaited second novel, Strip the Willow, has been shortlisted for the 2010 Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Award, winning the Fiction category.

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Leila Aboulela

Award-winning author Leila Aboulela writes with clarity and insight about religious identity, Islamic culture and her home town of Khartoum.

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Carlos Alba

Carlos Alba is a journalist who has worked in Scotland for the past 17 years. He has been editor of The Sunday Times (Scotland) since September 2006 after five years as deputy editor. Prior to that, he was Scottish political editor of the Daily Record and education correspondent at The Herald. He has won five Scottish Press awards. In 2001 he co-authored with Ron Mackenna Keep the Faith: The Story of Celtic’s Historic Treble Winning Season 2000–2001 (Mainstream).

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David Ashton

    

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