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I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm reserved. I'm self-contained. I get all my adventures in my head when I'm writing my books.

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I wanted to be able to support myself without begging for handouts from the state. All of the writers I knew when I was a student were all getting grants from the Scottish Arts Council.

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I dunno whether it was to do with my parents - we were working-class - but it was important to me to be self-sufficient.

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I don't want the books to become PR exercises for the police; I want to have the freedom to write about cops who cross the line: bad cops.

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I grew up in a family that was working-class, which taught me to be careful with money.

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My mother worked in a school canteen - then worked in the canteen of a chicken factory. Every Friday, the pay packet money would be allocated to cover bills.

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My father worked in a grocery store. When the grocery chain went into administration, he eventually got a job in the naval dockyard in an office preparing the charts for the boats and the submarines before they headed out.

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I have a strong work ethic, yet I'm incredibly lazy as well. The problem with being a writer is that everything you do can be called research. Sitting in the pub is research. Reading the newspaper can be research.

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My parents were working class and didn't have much money, so holidays tended to be two weeks in a caravan at St. Andrews or a B&B in Blackpool.

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When I was in my early 20s and still at uni, I won a short-story competition: £200 was the prize.

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Writer

Born: April 28th, 1960

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