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Craig Smith

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Born

The United Kingdom

Website

https://www.craigasmith.co.uk

Genre

Fiction, Humor and Comedy, Historical Fiction

Member Since

December 2013

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Craig Smith lives on the edge (of Edinburgh) with his wife and (now grown-up) children.

In a former life he was a musician with a couple of NME Singles of the Week to his name. In this life, his spare bass gathers dust in a corner while his Fender Precision left to begin a new life in Marseilles.

His debut novel The Mile (Pilrig Press) was published to much acclaim in 2013.

His latest novel The River (Into Books) will be released in March 2025 and is now available to pre-order.

An alumni of the Faber Academy, he continues to write about Scotland, Scottishness, and Scots, and hopes one day he might live in a normal country.

Preferably Scotland.

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	The Mile 3.95 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The Golden Apples of the Sun

by Ray Bradbury

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A Prayer For Owen Meany

by John Irving (Goodreads Author)

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