Elsewhere: The Story of UK Skateboarding 1987-2002

by Neil MacDonald

400 pages, Hardcover

Expected publication May 19, 2026

About the author

I was born in Dundee, Scotland and raised in Jamaica. I have a PhD in genetics and started my working life as a scientist. From there, I moved through journalism (the last profession of the gentleman) and publishing to working for international aid organisations.

I have always written, one way or another, and am the author of five current affairs books on Latin America and the Caribbean, and most recently, in 2013, Cautionary Tales for Development Workers, a collection of stories about international aid.

Over the last several years I have been serving my apprenticeship in fiction and my debut literary thriller,The Tears of Boabdil, is out in September 2020. My historical fantasy novel A Prize of Sovereigns. was serialised on BigWorldNework (http://bigworldnetwork.com/site/serie...). My short stories have appeared in Structo, Gold Dust, and other magazines.

I have lived and worked in the US and South Africa, and now live in a cottage in Surrey with my wife and the obligatory two dogs.