Looking for more in Author Directory?

Douglas Watt

All of the information on this page has been provided by the author. If you need an author to have specialist skills, experience or knowledge beyond their creative work, please ask for more information about this ahead of booking them for an event. Please note that authors do not have to have a PVG to be listed.
Contact: wattdouglas8@gmail.com
Local authority: Midlothian
Languages: English
Douglas Watt's headshot

I am the author of a series of historical crime novels set in late-17th century Scotland, featuring investigative advocate John MacKenzie and his side-kick Davie Scougall. The fourth book in the series The Unnatural Death of a Jacobite was published by Luath Press in 2019 and the fifth, A Killing in Van Diemen’s Land, will be published by Luath in 2020. I am also the author of The Price of Scotland, a prize-wining history of Scotland’s attempt to establish a colony at Darien in Central America in the late 17th century.

I can give readings and talks about my series of late-17th century crime novels or my history of the Darien Disaster.

(Photo credit: Julie Watt)

Local authorities can visit

Aberdeen City; Aberdeenshire; Angus; Argyll and Bute; Clackmannanshire; Dumfries and Galloway; Dundee; East Ayrshire; East Dunbartonshire; East Lothian; East Renfrewshire; Edinburgh City; Falkirk; Fife; Glasgow City; Highland; Inverclyde; Midlothian; Moray; Na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles); North Ayrshire; North Lanarkshire; Orkney Islands; Perth and Kinross; Renfrewshire; Scottish Borders; Shetland; South Ayrshire; South Lanarkshire; Stirling; West Dunbartonshire; West Lothian

Events can deliver

Panel event; Reading; Talk; Chairing events

Topics of work

Adventure; Crime fiction; Historical fiction; History; Horror; Mystery & thriller

Age groups published for

Adults

Age groups can work with

18+

Audience size

0-10; 11-30; 31-100; 100-500; 500+