Craig robertson author biography outlines

Crime writer Craig Robertson confesses to a fondness for cemeteries and his local 19th-century pub, as well as taking plenty of inspiration from his home town of Stirling. I could probably be accused of being a bit of a fraud in one aspect of my writing.

Author craig robertson

All but one of my books are set in Glasgow and readers often say one of the things they like most is the sense of place, about how I understand Glasgow. Born and bred a Son of the Rock and proud of it. I did spend 20 years working in Glasgow, long enough that I can bluff my credentials there, but it was Stirling that shaped me and there that I continue to lay my head.

Like the castle. Like the Wallace Monument. Like cobbled streets and the Ochils, like pubs that are older than the USA, like graves of kings and queens and royal residences. When you are surrounded by the trappings of history from an early age, they become commonplace. Photo: Angus Blackburn. Oh, just us then. I remember being at university in Dundee, sitting in a pub and two locals asking where I was from.