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Malcolm Mackay was born on 1 January 1982, in a small town of Stornoway in Scotland’s Isle of Lewis. He still lives there and has been to Glasgow quite a few times, but much of his work is based on the underground gangs found in Glasgow.
Malcolm Mackay (born 1 September 1981, Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland) is a Scottish crime writer. In 2013 he won the Deanston Scottish Crime Book of the Year for his novel How a Gunman Says Goodbye .
Malcolm McKay may refer to: Malcolm McKay (writer) (born 1947), British writer; Malcolm McKay (politician) (1873–1928), Canadian politician; See also.
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McKay was born in Epping, London. He studied at St Joseph's Convent primary, King Edward V1 Grammar, Chelmsford and Canley College of Education, Coventry. He qualified as a teacher in 1969[citation needed]and began a career in the theatre soon after.
He has published four novels: The Path, about the personal, intellectual and spiritual inter-reaction between a group of international travelers on the Camino de Santiago; The Lack Brothers, a journey by three brothers in search of their mother through a mythologised London of the last fifty years, published by Transworld; Breaking Up, depicting th...
McKay has spent many years as a writer and director for television. His writing has always dealt with extreme behaviour and includes the controversial BBC play Airbase which dealt metaphorically with drug abuse on a USAF base in England. The play achieved notoriety after it was mentioned in Parliament and the Lords after Prime Minister Thatcher dem...
His radio play Etian about a woman's recovery from rape was nominated for a Prix Italia award.[citation needed]
McKay has written many plays for the theatre including Yellowbacks, a dystopian take on the AIDS epidemic; Harry Mixture about a South London gangster; Pistols which describes the final hours of the punk band; Renaissence, an insight into the mental collapse of a lawyer as his family breaks up around him; The People's Temple details the slow descen...
Sudden Arrival of Violence. by Malcolm Mackay. 4.14 · 1,064 Ratings · 134 Reviews · published 2015 · 24 editions. The stunning conclusion to Malcolm Mackay's lauded…. Want to Read. Rate it: The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter (The Glasgow Trilogy, 1), How a Gunman Says Goodbye (The Glasgow Trilogy, 2), and Sudden Arrival of Violence (The ...
Malcolm McKay is known for Screenplay (1986), Screen Two (1985) and Gormenghast (2000). Menu. Movies. Release Calendar Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Browse ...
Apr 21, 2015 · Malcolm Mackay 's Glasgow Trilogy has been nominated for several international prizes. The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter was shortlisted for the Edgar Awards' Best Paperback Original, the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger, and the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.
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