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Author Description Doug Johnstone is a writer, musician and journalist based in Edinburgh. His fourth novel, <i>Hit & Run</i>, was published by Faber and Faber in 2012. His previous novel, <i>Smokeheads</i>, was published in March 2011, also by Faber. Before that he published two novels with Penguin, <i>Tombstoning</i> (2006) and <i>The Ossians</i> (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.

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