Liam McIlvanney
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Liam McIlvanney is a Scottish-born crime fiction writer and academic at the University of Otago in Otago, New Zealand,[1] and the inaugural holder of the Stuart Chair in Scottish studies at the university.[2] He is the son of William McIlvanney.[3] Notable students include author Majella Cullinane.[4]
Fiction
In September 2025, McIlvanney was a guest on the Off the Shelf podcast as part of a feature on the McIlvanney Prize[5].
- All the Colours of the Town (2009)
- Where the Dead Men Go (2013)
- The Quaker (2018)
- The Heretic (2022)[6]
- The Good Father (2025)[7]
Nonfiction
- Burns the Radical: Poetry and Politics in Late Eighteenth-Century Scotland (2002)