Seán Damer

Seán Damer is a sociologist by training and a writer by inclination. On receiving early retirement from his academic post at the University of Glasgow, he did a Master's in Creative Writing, gaining his degree in the same year as he received his bus pass! The author of several non-fiction books on the social history of Glasgow, his first fictional book was "For the Good of the Cause" (2014), a Young Adults novel about the "true" relationship between Flora MacDonald and Bonnie Prince Charlie in the "over-the-sea-to-Skye" episode. This was followed in 2022 by "Those Tyrannising Landlords," a historical novel about an immigrant Irish Catholic family to the Glasgow of 1912. He is currently completing a novel set in the wartime Cretan Resistance, a thriller with a mystery at its core. Seán has also published and broadcast short stories, and has written several prize-winning if unproduced screenplays.