User:Oleoghain/John A. A. Logan (writer, 1967 - )

John A. A. Logan (writer, 1967 - ) is an internationally published writer from Scotland.

He was born in Glasgow 1967, and graduated Aberdeen University MA (Honours) English 1994.

He currently writes and runs a farm on which his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather lived and worked since 1906.

John Logan's work has appeared in books and magazines sold in most of the world, including North America, Eastern Europe, Israel and China.

His work has been reviewed in the Scottish national press and studied at universities in England and Bulgaria.

In 2002 he was one of the writers invited from around the world to perform at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. John Logan is the author of several novels and a considerable number of short stories. His novel Bringing Something Back can be purchased at book shops like W.H. Smith or from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.

Publication history: Sometimes All the World Comes Down published by Picador in the British Council anthology, New Writing 13, edited by Ali Smith and Toby Litt, the book was sold in most countries of the world. Book review by Ashok K Banker published in The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, and quoted in an article by Stephen Abell in The Spectator.

Tortoises and Bats published by Vintage in the British Council anthology, New Writing 9, edited by A L Kennedy and John Fowles, this book was also sold in most countries.

Review in Scotland on Sunday by Catherine Lockerbie.

Bringing Something Back, published in Edinburgh Review Issue 109.

Invited by Edinburgh Review to perform a reading of Bringing Something Back at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Other Languages, published in Edinburgh Review Issue 107.

Circles within Circles, a 6000 word extract from a novella called The Major, was published in Edinburgh Review Issue 113. New Deal for the New Writer, published in Edinburgh Review Issue 110, under the pseudonym Donald Ross. The Day Billy Bear's Mum Sent Him to Sign On, published in Chapman Issue 93. Fat Pig and Thin Oinker, published in Northwords Issue 25. Not to be the First Caught, published in Northwords Issue 20/21. Perve Meets Perve, published in Northwords Issue 15. The Highland Shark, published in Nomad Issue 13. Natural Causes, published in Nomad Issue 17-18. The Emotion, published in Secrets of a View an anthology of work by Inverness Writers. Dr David Moses' 1500 word review of Bringing Something Back appeared in Scottish Studies Review, Spring 2005. “ Logan writes in very original terms...the ‘death thread’ resonates throughout the book...the various physical and mental crises the narrator goes through ring only too true."

Novelist, Alan Warner, endorsed Bringing Something Back "A blistering, tough book, tempered by tenderness and mystery."

Other novels: Mike and The Lion, Rocks In The Head, Agency Woman, Starnegin's Camp, and The Survival of Thomas Ford.