Paul Johnston is a Scottish writer, who spends much of his time in Greece with his Greek wife. He is the author of nine crime novels that contain elements of politics, philosophy and Greek history. Paul has just started a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and spends his steadily diminishing free time learning to play the guitar.

His Quint Dalrymple quintet of novels, set in a near-future Edinburgh, has been widely praised. The first book in the series, Body Politic, won the John Creasey Dagger Award, has been translated into Greek, and is currently being developed as a film.

He has also written a trilogy of novels featuring Greek-Scots private investigator Alex Mavros. The second in the series, The Last Red Death, concerning Greek terrorism and its roots in the Axis occupation, won the Sherlock Αward for best detective novel in 2004. The third novel, The Golden Silence, is also being developed for the big screen.

His latest book, The Death List, a revenge thriller set in London, is enjoying both critical and popular success, and is being translated into several languages.

You will have the opportunity to meet Paul, and hear him read from his work and discuss it with the writer Sofka Zinovieff.

The event will be held in English. Admission free.