Alan Parks (writer)
Alan Parks (born 1963)[1] is a Scottish crime writer in the Tartan Noir genre.[2][1] His fifth novel May God Forgive won the 2022 McIlvanney Prize as the best Scottish crime book of the year.[3]
Career
[edit]His novels, each including a month of the year in its title, are set in 1970s Glasgow and feature "rather bent copper" Harry McCoy.[1] May God Forgive was shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger.[4]
In August 2025, Parks was a guest on the Off the Shelf Podcast as part of a feature on the McIlvanney Prize[5].
Selected publications
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 3 Handel, Peter (9 April 2021). "Alan Parks on Drugs, Noir, and Glasgow in the 1970s". CrimeReads. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
- ↑ "Alan Parks – Canongate Books". canongate.co.uk. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
- ↑ "Winners revealed for the McIlvanney Prize 2022 & the Bloody Scotland Debut Prize". Bloody Scotland. 16 September 2022. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
- ↑ "The 2023 CWA Daggers Shortlists Have Been Announced". Ian Fleming. 2023-05-17. Retrieved 2023-07-10.
- ↑ https://open.spotify.com/episode/7ECyApsikeGFEGFrOymnjq?si=f1PSql1eSny_Nvfh7bSF2g
- ↑ "Book review: Bloody January, by Alan Parks". www.scotsman.com. 17 January 2018. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
- ↑ "Book review: February's Son by Alan Parks". HeraldScotland. 20 January 2019. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
- ↑ "Bobby March Will Live Forever Review". www.crimereview.co.uk. 4 July 2020. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
- ↑ "Bloody January". Kirkus Reviews. 24 December 2017. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
- ↑ "The April Dead by Alan Parks". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
- ↑ "Book Review: May God Forgive, by Alan Parks". www.scotsman.com. 27 April 2022. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
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