Who is your favourite UK author that you think more people should know about?

I’m currently down with a fluey post-holiday cold and indulging myself in reading JD Kirk’s DCI Logan series back-to-back on my Kindle. I’ve also recently listened to his latest Bob Hoon book on Audible (great listen with Angus King’s majestic rendering of Hoon).

The Logan books are mostly set in and around Inverness and environs, the one I’m currently on is happening in Fort Augustus and Dingwall. As I live in the area it is fun to know exactly where things are happening, rather than a Michael Connelly, for example. I love the Harry Bosch books, but I don’t know LA at all so it loses that immediacy.

In a similar vein I’ve been reading a bunch of Douglas Lindsay book. He wrote the book that the Robert Carlisle/Emma Thompson film The Legend of Barney Thomson. There are a lot more books, of increasing absurdity, about Barney, but he also writes several police series, one of which is also based in the highlands.

So who do you think we should all read more of?