Well, that was quite an intense weekend. Totally stoked to win the 2018 McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year at the Bloody Scotland Festival in Stirling: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/21/liam-mcilvanney-wins-scottish-fiction-award-father-bible-john
To win the award in such a strong field (the shortlist featured Lin Anderson, Chris Brookmyre and Charles Cumming – the ABC of Scottish crime writing) was incredible, and to win an award named in honour of my late father was pretty emotional. I also got to lead a torchlit procession through the streets of Stirling’s Old Town with Val McDermid and Denise Mina. I’ve had worse weekends… 
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