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Louise Welsh

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After studying history at Glasgow University, Louise Welsh established a second-hand bookshop, where she worked for many years. Her first novel, The Cutting Room, won several awards, including the 2002 Crime Writers’ Association John Creasey Memorial Dagger, and was jointly awarded the 2002 Saltire Society Scottish First Book of the Year Award. Louise was granted a Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Award in 2003, a Scotland on Sunday/Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award in 2004, and a Hawthornden Fellowship in 2005.

She is a regular radio broadcaster, has published many short stories, and has contributed articles and reviews to most of the British broadsheets. She has also written for the stage. The Guardian chose her as a 'woman to watch' in 2003.

Her second book, Tamburlaine Must Die, a novelette written around the final three days of the poet Christopher Marlowe's life, was published in 2004. Her third novel, The Bullet Trick , is a present-day murder mystery set in Berlin.

The Cutting Room 2002
Tamburlaine Must Die 2004
The Bullet Trick 2006
Naming The Bones 2010

Prizes and awards
2002 Crime Writers' Association John Creasey Memorial Dagger The Cutting Room

2002 Saltire Society Scottish First Book of the Year Award The Cutting Room

2003 BBC Underground Award The Cutting Room

2003 Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Award

2004 Corine Internationaler Buchpreis: Rolf Heyne Debutpreis The Cutting Room

2004 Scotland on Sunday/Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award

2004 Stonewall Book Award

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Books from Louise Welsh

The Cutting Room

A Lovely Way to Burn

The Girl on the Stairs

The Bullet Trick

Tamburlaine Must Die

Naming the Bones

The Second Cut

OxCrimes: 27 Killer Stories from the Cream of Crimewriters

The Cutting Room

Ghost: 100 Stories to Read with the Lights On

The Crime Interviews Volume One: Best-selling Authors Talk About Writing Crime Fiction

Dear Scotland - Notes to Our Nation

Stories from Home: An anthology of stories and poems

Crooked Holster: An Anthology of New Crime Fiction: Volume 2

Litro #132 - The Fairer Sex

Das Alphabet der Knochen

Home Ground

Death is a Welcome Guest (Plague Times, #2)

Ghost: 100 Stories to Read with the Lights On

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