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Doug Johnstone


Born
Scotland
Genre
Mystery


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 wh ...more

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Average rating: 3.78 · 20,043 ratings · 2,315 reviews · 29 distinct works • Similar authors
Gone Again
3.49 avg rating — 5,184 ratings — published 2013 — 13 editions
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The Space Between Us
3.82 avg rating — 3,098 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions
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A Dark Matter (The Skelfs, #1)
3.93 avg rating — 2,317 ratings — published 2019 — 9 editions
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The Big Chill (The Skelfs, #2)
4.05 avg rating — 1,251 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions
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The Great Silence (The Skel...
4.14 avg rating — 922 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions
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Breakers
4.22 avg rating — 831 ratings — published 2019 — 12 editions
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Black Hearts (The Skelfs #4)
4.08 avg rating — 673 ratings — published 2022
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The Collapsing Wave (The En...
4.20 avg rating — 537 ratings — published 2024 — 4 editions
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Fault Lines
3.59 avg rating — 564 ratings — published 2018 — 9 editions
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The Opposite of Lonely (Ske...
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A Dark Matter The Big Chill The Great Silence Black Hearts The Opposite of Lonely Living is A Problem
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“they could easily do heart transplants these days, yet childbirth still felt like a black art, some form of ancient witchcraft. If men gave birth you could bet they would've worked out a trouble-free, painless way to do it.”
― Doug Johnstone
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“That knocked him into shape. The telly was off in a moment”
― Doug Johnstone, Gone Again
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“two people are so close they read each other’s thoughts, but it’s still a load of crap. Sometimes you have to express clearly what you’ve done wrong and how you feel about it.”
― Doug Johnstone, The Big Chill
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