David Aitken

David Aitken is a 79-year old Scotsman and a graduate of St Andrews University. Apart from a few years as a teacher of French and German in Edinburgh, most of his working life was spent overseas as a Teacher of English as a Foreign Language, in such places as West Germany (as it was known then), the Persian Gulf (as it was known then) and Hong Kong. During 12 years in the gulf state of Qatar, he wrote a column in the Weekly Gulf Times and continued this in the Cyprus Weekly when he bought a village house in Cyprus in the 1980's. Following the death of his first wife, David returned to his native Dundee, where he met and married Joyce. In 2000 his first novel, Sleeping with Jane Austen, was short-listed for the Dundee Book Prize and published by No Exit Press(and by Four Walls Eight Windows in the USA). His second novel, A Dundee Detective, written in 2012, was a long time coming! He has now also published a collection of his journalism entitled Unfortunate Journalism, as well as two other novels, East Coast Detectives and The Linoleum Prize.

David lives in Broughty Ferry in Scotland.