Reviewer biographies

Jane Bradley is consumer affairs correspondent and a columnist for The Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday. She also chairs events at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

Roger Cox is the arts & books editor of The Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday. He also writes an outdoors column for The Scotsman Magazine.

Louise Fairbairn is The Scotsman’s deputy print production editor. An aficionado of tartan noir, she is often to be found at crime writing festivals, adding to her large “to read” pile.

Stuart Kelly is a Scottish critic and author. His works include The Book of Lost Books and Scott-land: The Man Who Invented a Nation, which was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. He was a Man Booker Prize judge in 2013.

Allan Massie is The Scotsman’s chief literary critic. He is the author of more than 20 novels, notably his acclaimed trilogy set in mid-20th-century Europe – A Question of Loyalties, The Sins of the Father and Shadows of Empire – and his series of historical novels about the key figures of Imperial Rome.

Chris Mccall is a multimedia news reporter for The Scotsman, based in Glasgow and currently on secondment to the BBC. He has written about the arts, and music in particular, for a variety of publications.

Kirsty Mcluckie is property editor and special reports writer for The Scotsman. She regularly chairs Gliterary Lunches – meet-the-author networking events – in Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Duncan Macmillan is Professor Emeritus of the History of Scottish Art at the University of Edinburgh and former curator of Edinburgh’s Talbot Rice Gallery. He also writes art criticism for The Scotsman.

Susan Mansfield is a freelance arts writer, Scotsman art and theatre critic and a member of The Scotsman’s Fringe First Awards team. She is also a published poet, winner of the Jack Clemo Poetry Prize 2018, and author, along with Alistair Moffat, of The Great Tapestry of Scotland: The Making of a Masterpiece.

David Robinson was the books editor of The Scotsman for more than 15 years. He is now a freelance journalist, ghostwriter and editor. In 2008, Maclean Dubois published a collection of his essays and interviews entitled In Cold Ink: On The Writers’ Tracks. He also works as a mentor on the Emerging Critics mentoring programme, run by the Scottish Review of Books.

Ken Walton has been The Scotsman’s classical music critic for more than 20 years. He has also taught at Glasgow University, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and Hutchesons’ Grammar School in Glasgow, where he is currently director of music performance.