An award-winning poet, playwright and bestselling novelist. His books include A Method Actor’s Guide to Jekyll and Hyde, The Stornoway Way, and Love and Zen in the Outer Hebrides. He has held a number of prestigious writing residencies in Europe and he cycled four countries in a dozen cycling days for two cancer charities (on a fixed-gear bike), a feat documented by a film crew and a forthcoming book.

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