John Aberdein

"'Amande's Bed' (Saltire First Book Award, 2005) is a good blasting story, a great river-rush of language and a book made of the combination of wisdom, energy and generosity. Startling, deeply bawdy, hilarious, dark, sweet, crowded and alive. In the end it moved me to tears." Ali Smith 'The Guardian'

"'Strip the Willow' (SAC Best Fiction, 2010) is as darkly dystopian and uncannily prophetic as its predecessor was tenderly, lyrically nostalgic. We’re once again in the city of Aberdeen, but in a future where ‘Uberdeen’ is being nothing less than shafted by the global corporation ‘LeopCorp’, which has taken over the bankrupt city council..." Gavin Wallace

'Never Ask', a set of 50 red-green poems, is being redrafted for publication.

"Were he not thick with years,

and she not birch-bright:

were springs not good at melting snow,

nor tàrmachan awhirr like living quartz,

how could they hope to cancel dark forts of Empire?

Under the land's spell, respelling their land –

Alba."