Alan Bisset's guest appearances

Alan Bisset

Fiery Scots Podcast

Scots Whay Hae!

Read On - The Audiobook Show from RNIB

Andy Miller

Lissa Evans

Anthony Bourdain

Andrew Smith

Julian Fellowes

Chris Stewart

Jason Roberts

George Saunders

Roger Ackroyd

Nigella Lawson

Sebastian Faulks

Jacqueline Wilson

Mark Haddon

Michael Palin

Anthony Horowitz

OwlTail

Denise Mina

Chris Brookmyre

Louise Welsh

Zoe Strachan

As this year's AyeWrite! approaches, Robert Kirkwood chats to Denise Mina, Chris Brookmyre, Alan Bisset, Louise Welsh and Zoe Strachan about some of their favourite memories of the Glasgow Book Festival.

<p>As this year's AyeWrite! approaches, Robert Kirkwood chats to Denise Mina, Chris Brookmyre, Alan Bisset, Louise Welsh and Zoe Strachan about some of their favourite memories of the Glasgow Book Festival.</p>

AyeWrite! - Favourite moments from Denise Mina, Chris Brookmyre, Alan Bisset, Louise Welsh and Zoe Strachan

Alan Bissett is the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Writer of the Year 2011.He was born in 1975 in Falkirk, Scotland. David Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’, re-released, was at Number One in the charts that week. He grew up in Hallglen, a housing scheme on the outskirts of the town and the setting for much of his later work, attending Hallglen Primary School, Falkirk High School, and then Stirling University, where he studied English. After graduating he worked very briefly as an English teacher, before deciding to study for a PhD, supporting himself by selling books in Waterstones. He didn’t get the PhD, but he did publish his debut novel.

Alan Bissett is the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Writer of the Year 2011.<br><br>He was born in 1975 in Falkirk, Scotland. David Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’, re-released, was at Number One in the charts that week. He grew up in Hallglen, a housing scheme on the outskirts of the town and the setting for much of his later work, attending Hallglen Primary School, Falkirk High School, and then Stirling University, where he studied English. After graduating he worked very briefly as an English teacher, before deciding to study for a PhD, supporting himself by selling books in Waterstones. He didn’t get the PhD, but he did publish his debut novel.

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