Beatrice Colin is the author of. To Capture What We Cannot Keep. Which will be published in the US on November 29th 2016 by Flatiron Books. Published in the UK, Australia, Germany, Italy, Brazil, Poland and the Czech Republic in 2017. The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite. She has been shortlisted for a British Book Award, a Saltire Award and a Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award and writes short stories, screen and radio plays and for children.

One page at a time. Monday, 10 June 2013. Goodbye Iain Banks Scottish author of The Wasp Factory, Culture, The Crow Road. The end when it came was far more sudden, far swifter than anyone had thought. Ian Rankin, his friend and fellow Fifer, in a touching, off the cuff,passionate tribute, told the BBC news last night. That even as recently as last Tuesday doctors had told the author that he had months rather than weeks to live. It turned out to be days. His Scottishness might have .