Iain Finlayson (born 1945) is a Scottish writer and journalist. Finlayson has written biographies of

James Boswell James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (; 29 October 1740 (New Style, N.S.) – 19 May 1795), was a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer, born in Edinburgh. He is best known for his biography of his friend and older contemporary the Englis ...

and

Robert Browning Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets. He was noted for irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings ...

, as well as books about

Romney Marsh Romney Marsh is a sparsely populated wetland area in the counties of Kent and East Sussex in the south-east of England. It covers about . The Marsh has been in use for centuries, though its inhabitants commonly suffered from malaria until the ...

, the Scots,

denim Denim is a sturdy cotton warp-faced textile in which the weft passes under two or more warp threads. This twill weaving produces a diagonal ribbing that distinguishes it from cotton duck. While a denim predecessor known as dungaree has been pr ...

and

Tangier Tangier ( ; ; ar, طنجة, Ṭanja) is a city in northwestern Morocco. It is on the Moroccan coast at the western entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar, where the Mediterranean Sea meets the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Spartel. The town is the cap ...

. He was books editor of ''

Saga Magazine Saga is a British company focused on serving the needs of those aged 50 and over. It has 2.7 million customers. The company operates sites on the Kent and Sussex coast: Enbrook Park and Priory Square. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange. ...

'', and reviewed books for ''

The Times ''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (fou ...

''. Under the collective pseudonym Matthew McAllister, he and Simon Burt have written a crime novel, ''Blood Month'', published electronically under their imprint Atrium Editions.Blood Month: Matthew McAllister (aka Iain Finlayson) Talks To Madame Arcati
/ref> Iain Finlayson lives & works in Hay-on-Wye, Wales.

Works

* ''Winston Churchill'', 1980 * ''The moth and the candle: a life of James Boswell'', 1984 * ''The sixth continent: a literary history of Romney Marsh'', 1986 * ''The Scots: a portrait of the Scottish soul at home and abroad'', 1987 * ''Denim: an American legend'', 1990 * ''Tangier: city of the dream'', 1992 * ''Browning: a private life'', 2003 * (with Simon Burt, as Matthew McAllister) ''Blood Month'', 2012

References

External links

atriumeditions.co.uk
1945 births Living people Scottish journalists Scottish biographers Scottish crime writers 20th-century biographers 21st-century biographers {{UK-journalist-stub