Iain Kelly
@iainkellywriting
📚 Writer. 📺 Editor. 🏴 Glasgow. 📘 The Barra Boy /📗 All We Cannot Leave Behind / 📙 Full Sun - all out now and available from all good booksellers.
Limited Time Only Deal - perfect for readers of historical fiction and crime thrillers. Set in Edinburgh in 1920, All We Cannot Leave Behind is only 99p on book for the next few days. Pick up a copy now! amzn.eu/d/08An10ix
The perfect read for fans of crime fiction. Get The State Trilogy for only 99p each until July 12. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07JYYTL4J
Finally, after 28 years (the summer I finished school and started university), it's time. C'mon Scotland. #noscotlandnoparty
Fantastic evening at Waterstones East Kilbride chatting to award-winning author @callummcsorley.bsky.social about his new novel, the brilliant Rat Race, his writing career, growing up in East Kilbride and his plans for the future. Thanks to everyone who came along. A few signed copies in store.
April Reads - rediscovering graphic novels and learning about some thoroughly disreputable characters, both fiction and non-fiction, plus a Scottish hero. #Aprilreads #bookrecommendations #bookblogger #bookreview
Thank you to Waterstones Oban for a lovely event last night, chatting about Hostile City, Cal Jackson and my writing. And thanks to everyone who gave up their evening in the sunshine to come along. Signed copies in store now.
March reading round up: The Names ***** Four Shots in the Night ***** V For Vendetta ***** Insomnia ** Grid to Glory **** The New York Trilogy *** Only Here, Only Now **** Columba's Bones ** Open, Heaven ***
Fantastic evening with The Reading Room book club in Greenock last night. Many thanks to Jill and Carla for inviting me along and for all who attended and bought a book or two. Hope everyone enjoyed the chat and enjoys the books. Didn't do too badly in the quiz either!
Last Autumn I joined the team at Objective Media and Serious Facilities editing CBBC's Operation Ouch with Dr Chris and Dr Xand van Tulleken and friends, and today it drops on BBC iPlayer and starts on the CBBC channel. Tune in for medical mayhem and plenty of gross alerts!
2 fantastic author events - thanks to everyone who came along to Daydreams in Milngavie and Caffeinated Escapism in Alexandria. Thanks to everyone who came along!
Thanks to Waterstones East Kilbride and staff for having me along for a book signing yesterday. A steady trickle rather than a rush but 25 books sold, so a very worthwhile afternoon. Thanks to everyone who came along for their support and I hope you enjoy the books!
Signed copies of all 4 books Waterstones Glasgow Sauchiehall Street, including the new one. #bookblogger #bookrecommendations #bookstagram
I'm delighted to be returning to my local Waterstones in East Kilbride on Sat 7th February to sign copies of my new book HOSTILE CITY. Come along for a chat and pick up a signed copy. Hope to see some of you there! #booksigning #authorevent #booklaunch #eastkilbride
Cal Jackson is coming for you. HOSTILE CITY 28.01.26 Available to order now. . . . . A bit of AI generated fun to animate my book cover. #bookrecommendations #bookblogger
For any followers who are on NetGalley, my latest book HOSTILE CITY is available to request for the next few weeks. #netgalley #BookRec #books.bsky📚💙
Just in time for last minute Christmas shopping, HOSTILE CITY has arrived in Waterstones stores across Scotland.
Delighted to reveal the cover of my new book, HOSTILE CITY, arriving January 2026 - the second book to feature Cal Jackson, after FULL SUN. Thanks to the team at The Book Guild for another outstanding cover design. Hope everyone likes it.
Any lovers of crime and thriller fiction in and around Glasgow? Come along to Noir in the Bar in Milngavie and hear from a spectacular line up of authors (and me)
The next 1st draft is finished, and a manageable word count. On to editing.
September Reads: Inadvertently appear to have tried to terrify myself with war, sharks, vampires and monsters. Gorillas and Gibbons provided relief. Night Train to Odesa ***** Nuclear War **** Quint *** Salem's Lot **** The Mist **** Gorillas in the Mist ***** Cold Comfort Farm *****
August reads: rounding out the summer with some Scottish crime, US crime, and the best book about tennis I've ever read. The Racket ***** The Malt Whisky Murders ***** The Other Side of Fear ***** Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales *** The Jungle Book **** Find You First **** Take Your Breath Away ****
On Friday 5th September (2 weeks today), I'll be appearing at the Nairn Book and Arts Festival as part of their Wine and Crime event, sharing the stage with Douglas Skelton and Natalie Jayne Clark - both listed for prizes at this year's Bloody Scotland Festival (imposter syndrome alarm is ringing 🚨)
Still 5 months to go, but the proofs for the next book have been delivered, reviewed, amended and signed off. HOSTILE CITY coming 28th January 2026.
July Reads - summer thrillers, Scottish history and terrible humans. Playing Nice ***** Terrible Humans **** Camino Island **** Camino Winds **** Camino Ghosts *** The Perfect Marriage **** Elevator Pitch ***** Seven Days *** 1314 The Year of Bannockburn ***** Scotland The How? ***
FULL SUN is having its moment in the sun. With a paid promotion and a price drop, the ebook has hit #5 in the Amazon Kindle Scottish Crime bestseller chart. And just a shade outside the top 300 of the overall UK chart. Still time to get your ebook copy for £0.99 / $0.99 until 31st July.
One tourist day in Paris. Whistle-stop tour which mainly introduced the kids to the madness of Parisian driving from an open top bus. Still a beautiful city. #eiffeltower #arcdetriomphe #louvre #paris
June reads: from the sublime to the ridiculous. Framed ***** Eruption **** Carte Blanche **** (reread) Icebreaker **** (reread) McLaren Formula 1 *** 007 Your Cold, Cold Heart *** The Perfect Psychopath ** Murder Island * #bookstagram #bookblogger #junereads
Excited to announce I have been invited to appear at my first festival: the Nairn Book and Arts Festival in September. Do head over to www.nairnfestival.co.uk to discover more about this year’s amazing week of events #nairnfest