Doug Johnstone
Author · 18 books
Doug Johnstone is a writer, musician and journalist based in Edinburgh. His fourth novel, Hit & Run, was published by Faber and Faber in 2012. His previous novel, Smokeheads, was published in March 2011, also by Faber. Before that he published two novels with Penguin, Tombstoning (2006) and The Ossians (2008), which received praise from the likes of Irvine Welsh, Ian Rankin and Christopher Brookmyre. Doug is currently writer in residence at the University of Strathclyde. He has had short stories appear in various publications, and since 1999 he has worked as a freelance arts journalist, primarily covering music and literature.He grew up in Arbroath and lives in Portobello, Edinburgh with his wife and two children. He loves drinking malt whisky and playing football, not necessarily at the same time.
Series
Books
The Jump
2015
The Dead Beat
2014
Elsewhere
There
2012
The Big Chill
2020
Smokeheads
2011
Breakers
2019
A Dark Matter
2019
The Opposite of Lonely
2023
Bloody Scotland
2017
The Great Silence
2021
The Space Between Us
2023
Crash Land
2016
Gone Again
2013
Hit and Run
2012
Living is A Problem
2024
Black Hearts
2022
Fault Lines
2018
Tombstoning
2006
