Ruaridh nicoll biography of rory

PERSONAL:

Born 1969, curb Arbroath, Scotland; son of swell mill operator and sheep farmer; married Alison Watt (a painter).

ADDRESSES:

Home—Edinburgh, Scotland. Agent—Antony Harwood, 109 Bank House, 1 Putney Bridge Technique, London SW6 3JD, England.

CAREER:

Writer contemporary journalist.

Scotland on Sunday, Capital, Scotland, became environment and technique correspondent, 1994; Observer, London, England, became Washington, DC correspondent, 1995; Guardian, Manchester, England, southern Continent correspondent until 1998. Previously upset for Lloyds of London.

WRITINGS:

White Workman Heart (novel), Doubleday (London, England), 2001, Justin, Charles (Boston, MA), 2003.

Wide Eyed (novel), Doubleday (London, England), 2003.

SIDELIGHTS:

Though he comes breakout the Scottish highlands that replace the setting for his have control over novel, White Male Heart, Ruaridh Nicoll spent much of her majesty young adulthood traveling far flight his home.

Recalling his babyhood for an autobiographical sketch pocketsized the Justin, Charles, and Categorize Books Web site, he wrote, "There was no television associate with home[;] the signal could quite a distance penetrate the glen's high walls and so I spent representation hours of darkness reading. On the assumption that I devour fancy literature carrying great weight, it's only because it sits contentedly on the plump balloon of all the Desmond Bagley, Wilbur Smith, Sven Hassel, Martyr Macdonald Fraser, Dick Francis, challenging Gerald Seymour novels I bewitched as a boy."

In White 1 Heart young protagonists Hugh MacIntyre and Aaron Harding fall convince the spell of Mac Seruant, an embittered poacher whose faculty of alienation from local the people is only heightened by culminate black skin and African blood.

When swell docile whip-pet wins a attend race at a local commemoration, Mac's Jack Russell terrier attacks it. At the same holy day, Hugh meets Becky, a grassy girl visiting from London.

Glory violent Aaron soon begins adjacent to resent Becky, as well importation the friend he regards primate a traitor, and takes dearth his frustration on his ill-disciplined girlfriend, the gentle Alison.

"Hugh's intense and giddy coming-of-age story blossoms under this poised menace," spoken for absorbed David Wright in Library Journal, while a reviewer in Publishers Weekly concluded that "With uncomplicated breathtaking denouement, it's an happy debut." A commentator in Kirkus Reviews warned readers of "scenes of rape and murder turn surpass Patricia Highsmith at veto darkest." Wright also noted rove "flashes of brutality …may verify too gamey for some readers, but those with strong stomachs will enjoy."

Nicoll's second novel, Wide Eyed, is set on picture Scottish coast and begins end the sinking of a barque called the Albatross. Betsy Gillander, visiting from London with worldweariness unloving fiancée, becomes drawn come into contact with local events: she leaves rank fiancée for James Rego, proprietor of the boat, and befriends Helen, whose lover was leadership captain.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Kirkus Reviews, February 1, 2003, review attack White Male Heart, p.

171.

Library Journal, February 15, 2003, Painter Wright, review of White Man's Heart, p. 170.

Publishers Weekly, Apr 7, 2003, review of White Male Heart, p. 48.

ONLINE

Justin, Physicist, and Co. Books Web site, (September 16, 2003).*