Douglas will be joining author pals Caro Ramsay and Michael J Malone in Newton Mearns in October as part of their Murder, Mystery and Murmurs tour (other dates to be announced). Caro will be talking about her brilliant new series, which begins with The Devil Stone, and Michael will discuss his atmospheric, spooky new book […]
It's autumn so that means it's time to return to Grantown for the Halloween weekend. This is always a high spot on my calendar, not the least because we get to do Carry on Sleuthing. OK, maybe audiences don't share our enthusiasm but the cast enjoy themselves. Well, most of them. And this year, it's […]
I'll be heading east to chat about the Rebecca Connolly books at this year's Pentlands Book Festival. This will mark my first time at this exciting festival and I'm looking forward to talking about CHILDREN OF THE MIST and the entire Rebecca Connolly series.
Douglas Skelton will interviewing BBC journalist Louise Minchin and Scottish author Alex Gray as part of Aye Write's on-going events. Louise's first novel, Isolation Island, draws on both her knowledge of TV journalism but also reality TV as a mixed group of individuals agree to take part in a rigorous TV series on a remote […]
SG MacLean, Sally Magnusson and Douglas Skelton will be interviewed by Jenny Brown as part of this year's Bookmark Festival in Blairgowrie. The event should have taken place last year but excessive flooding sadly forced the festival to close down. Let's hope that doesn't happen again, because Douglas enjoys this festival and Blairgowrie.
Very happy to say that I'll be returning the sunny Isle of Bute in August to chair two panels in an exciting @ButeNoir programme. On Friday I'll be chairing The Killing Kind at 8.30pm, chatting to authors Heidi Amsinck, Tariq Ashkanani and RD Maclean, while on Saturday at 10am it's True Crime: My Mother's Murder, […]
I'm delighted to be making my first appearance at the Edinburgh International Book Festival this year, sharing the stage with author Chris Barkley. I'll be discussing the new Rebecca Connolly thriller, 'The Other Side of Fear', while Chris will be talking about his new novel, also set on a Scottish island, 'The Man on the […]
Douglas has been a regular face at Bloody Scotland, the international crime writing festival held in Stirling every September. And this year he's back, not as a panel chair but talking about his own work. On Friday September 12 at 2pm he'll be sharing the stage at Holy Trinity Church with authors Charlotte Philly and […]
Douglas will join forced with fellow historical fiction author Douglas Jackson in September. They'll be appearing in Waterstones Perth on Wednesday September 24 to discuss their new books - Blood Vengeance, the third instalment in Douglas Jackson's Warsaw Quartet, and Ship of Thieves, the fifth Jonas Flynt novel by Douglas Skelton. If you're in the […]
Douglas is looking forward to returning to Moffat for the first time in eleven years for this recently revived festival.