• Liam McIlvanney is a Scottish-born crime fiction writer and academic at the University of Otago in Otago, New Zealand, and the inaugural holder of the...
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    journalist Hugh McIlvanney. His son, Liam McIlvanney, is also an author of the crime genre. In addition to his literary career, McIlvanney wrote regularly...
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  • (1934–2019), Scottish sports journalist Liam McIlvanney, Scottish-born crime fiction writer and academic William McIlvanney (1936–2015), Scottish novelist, short...
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  • Brookmyre, Black Widow 2017: Denise Mina, The Long Drop 2018: Liam McIlvanney (son of William McIlvanney),The Quaker 2019: Manda Scott, A Treachery of Spies (the...
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  • coach Liam McHugh (born 1977), American television presenter Liam McIlvanney, Scottish writer Liam McIntyre (born 1982), Australian actor Liam McKechnie (born...
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    praised McKinty's use of irony and humour as a counterpoint to the violent world inhabited by McKinty's Sean Duffy character. Liam McIlvanney, writing...
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    girls are picked up before being murdered in the novel The Quaker by Liam McIlvanney. Simple Minds named a track after the venue on their 2018 studio album...
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    mentioned as an item for sale by an auction house in The Quaker by Liam McIlvanney. Meet the West Enders: Edinburgh World Heritage publications Grave...
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  • Vikings: Valhalla. Fellow crime writer Liam McIlvanney described his wring as having the cadenced majesty of McCarthy or DeLillo, but the vision it enacts...
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  • Morricone. It is based on the 1986 novel of the same name by William McIlvanney. Set in a once prosperous mining community, now a ghost town, an unemployed...
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    Money in the Morgue by Ngaio Marsh and Stella Duffy The Quaker by Liam Mcilvanney Call Me Evie by J. P. Pomare The Vanishing Act by Jen Shieff Call Me...
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    memorial and Ballachulish are mentioned in Liam McIlvanney's crime novel "The Quaker" by his detective Duncan McCormick who is also from Ballachulish though...
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  • winners of the lifetime achievement have been: Douglas Dunn (2021) Alexander McCall Smith (2022) Liz Lockhead (2023) In addition, an annual student travel...
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  • James and Farah Mendlesohn Scottish Literature Gerald Carruthers and Liam McIlvanney Sensation Fiction Andrew Mangham The Sonnet A. D. Cousins and Peter...
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  • University of Otago in 2019. Tiernan is Co-Director, with Professor Liam McIlvanney, of the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies. Tiernan's research focuses...
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  • Peculier Crime Novel". Shelf Awareness. 21 May 2019. Retrieved 29 July 2022. "McKinty wins 2020 Theakston Crime Novel of the Year | Books+Publishing". Retrieved...
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  • University of Otago. Her doctoral advisors were Vincent O'Sullivan and Liam McIlvanney. She currently lives in Port Chalmers, New Zealand. Cullinane draws...
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  • Anthony McCarten 2016: Anna Smaill, Paul Cleave 2017: Selina Tusitala Marsh 2018: Ashleigh Young 2019: Lani Wendt Young and Liam McIlvanney 2020: Rachael...
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  • Faber Shortlist 2019 S. G. MacLean Destroying Angel Quercus Winner Liam McIlvanney The Quaker Shortlist Abir Mukherjee Smoke and Ashes Shortlist Alex...
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    heads back to jail". BBC. 3 May 2002. Retrieved 5 June 2007. William McIlvanney (5 May 2002). "Gangs grab a piece of the consumer society". The Scotsman...
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  • The Big Man (novel) (category Novels by William McIlvanney)
    The Big Man is a novel by William McIlvanney published in 1986 based on real life miner and bare knuckle boxer Thomas Tallen. The book was adapted into...
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    Vlaminck's Tie (Auckland University Press, 1985) Giotto's Elephant (John McIndoe, 1991) Cassandra's Daughter (Auckland University Press, 2005) The Tram...
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  • 2022-01-25. Retrieved 2022-01-12. "2008 Lambda Award Winners Announced". McNally Robinson Booksellers. 2008-06-05. Archived from the original on 2022-08-19...
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    thriller by Liam McIlvanney, Fiona Kidman talking about her true crime novel This Mortal Boy, Adrian McKinty, Liz Nugent and Vanda Symon, and Val McDermid,...
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  • Mystery Chris Gill, The Nowhere Greg Herren, Royal Street Reveillon Liam McIlvanney, The Quaker David S. Pederson, Death Takes a Bow Timothy Jay Smith...
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  • 2004). "A Scotsman abroad". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 January 2014. McIlvanney, Liam (22 July 2004). "Give or take a dead Scotsman". London Review of Books...
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    Newton decide he might as well have eaten the apple." — Sports writer Hugh McIlvanney. In March 2006, the airline Flybe named a Dash 8 (Q400) plane The George...
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    the Rise of the British Gangster. Hatchett UK. ISBN 978-1444739787. McIlvanney, Liam (2011). All the Colours of the Town. Faber & Faber. pp. 69–70. ISBN 978-0571278510...
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    completing a master's degree reading politics. Delaney described Hugh McIlvanney as his favourite sports writer. "Miguel Delaney". Independent.co.uk. Archived...
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  • producer Stephen Woolley an adaptation of William McIlvanney's novel The Big Man (1990) followed, starring Liam Neeson, Billy Connolly and Joanne Whalley. His...
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