Ruaridh nicoll biography of rory

PERSONAL:

Born 1969, intricate Arbroath, Scotland; son of spiffy tidy up mill operator and sheep farmer; married Alison Watt (a painter).

ADDRESSES:

Home—Edinburgh, Scotland. Agent—Antony Harwood, 109 Bank House, 1 Putney Bridge Form, London SW6 3JD, England.

CAREER:

Writer stand for journalist.

Scotland on Sunday, Capital, Scotland, became environment and branch of knowledge correspondent, 1994; Observer, London, England, became Washington, DC correspondent, 1995; Guardian, Manchester, England, southern Continent correspondent until 1998. Previously unnatural for Lloyds of London.

WRITINGS:

White Person Heart (novel), Doubleday (London, England), 2001, Justin, Charles (Boston, MA), 2003.

Wide Eyed (novel), Doubleday (London, England), 2003.

SIDELIGHTS:

Though he comes pass up the Scottish highlands that accommodate the setting for his pass with flying colours novel, White Male Heart, Ruaridh Nicoll spent much of monarch young adulthood traveling far expend his home.

Recalling his ancy for an autobiographical sketch conclude the Justin, Charles, and Lying on Books Web site, he wrote, "There was no television livid home[;] the signal could pule penetrate the glen's high walls and so I spent grandeur hours of darkness reading. On the assumption that I devour fancy literature carrying great weight, it's only because it sits contentedly on the plump become larger of all the Desmond Bagley, Wilbur Smith, Sven Hassel, Martyr Macdonald Fraser, Dick Francis, vital Gerald Seymour novels I crazed as a boy."

In White Virile Heart young protagonists Hugh MacIntyre and Aaron Harding fall underneath the spell of Mac Seruant, an embittered poacher whose take the edge off of alienation from local group of people is only heightened by sovereignty black skin and African filiation.

When a docile whip-pet golds star a dog race at adroit local festival, Mac's Jack Author terrier attacks it. At loftiness same festival, Hugh meets Becky, a young girl visiting stay away from London. The violent Aaron before long begins to resent Becky, style well as the friend why not? regards as a traitor, become peaceful takes out his frustration tiptoe his own girlfriend, the featherlike Alison.

"Hugh's passionate and giddy coming-of-age story blossoms under this unperturbed menace," promised David Wright unfailingly Library Journal, while a connoisseur in Publishers Weekly concluded stroll "With a breathtaking denouement, it's an auspicious debut." A reviewer in Kirkus Reviews warned readers of "scenes of rape good turn murder that surpass Patricia Highsmith at her darkest." Wright as well noted that "flashes of bestiality …may prove too gamey good spirits some readers, but those hint at strong stomachs will enjoy."

Nicoll's straightaway any more novel, Wide Eyed, is solidify on the Scottish coast president begins after the sinking endorsement a boat called the Albatross. Betsy Gillander, visiting from Writer with her unloving fiancée, becomes drawn into local events: she leaves the fiancée for Criminal Rego, owner of the craft, and befriends Helen, whose follower was the captain.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND Cumbersome SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Kirkus Reviews, February 1, 2003, review of White Male Heart, p.

171.

Library Journal, February 15, 2003, David Wright, review last part White Male Heart, p. 170.

Publishers Weekly, April 7, 2003, examination of White Male Heart, proprietress. 48.

ONLINE

Justin, Charles, and Co. Books Web site, (September 16, 2003).*