SCOTTISH REVIEW OF BOOKS - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Editor
• Member of the Board
• Journalist

Alan has been a journalist for over 30 years. He was deputy and managing editor at The Scotsman, and Associate Editor of the Sunday Herald. He has contributed to numerous publications, including The TLS, The New Yorker and The Melbourne Age, and edited several acclaimed anthologies - The Assassin's Cloak, The Secret Annexe, The Country Dairies (Canongate), and Glasgow: The Autobiography (Birlinn). His most recent book is the best-seller Appointment in Arezzo: A Friendship with Muriel Spark (Polygon) and he is the editor of the centenary editions of the Collected Novels of Muriel Spark (Polygon). He has been the editor and board member of the Scottish Review of Books since 2004 and has been involved with Emerging Critics since the beginning.

Job Titles:

• Admin
• Member of the Board
• Administrator, Events Organiser, Publicist

Anna Marshall is an arts administrator, events organiser, publicist and fundraiser. She works closely with Jan Rutherford, at Publicity & The Printed Word. Together they produce the events programme for Alexander McCall Smith, and work on The Great Tapestry of Scotland (delivering thirteen major exhibitions to date, attracting more than 340,000 visitors). She is on the steering group for Emerging Critics and is the newest member of the Board.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Board
• Trustee

Ian Wall FRSE, Trustee RBGE, Member of the Court of Heriot-Watt University, Board member of Lowther Homes, the Scottish Regeneration Forum, Children in Scotland, the Scottish Council for Development and Industry, the Edinburgh International Science Festival, International Centre for Mathematical Sciences; Chair of the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education Council to the Scottish Government, Board member WASPS Trust and Ltd, Chair of the Scottish Poetry Library and Literary Editor of Property Week.

Job Titles:

• Chairman of the Board
• Publicist

An experienced book publicist (25 years+), Jan Rutherford's company Publicity & The Printed Word works across the media, new and traditional, promoting books, authors, reading and writing. Jan worked with Scottish Book Trust for ten years on mentoring and professional development for writers and for the last five years she has chaired the board of the Scottish Review of Books. She is the UK publicist and event organiser for international best-selling author, Alexander McCall Smith, Project Manager for The Great Tapestry of Scotland and non-executive Director at Birlinn Ltd, Scotland's largest independent book publisher. She is on the steering group for Emerging Critics.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Board
• Journalist

Mark Douglas-Home is a journalist and author. Formerly editor of The Herald for five years and also editor of The Sunday Times Scotland, he previously held senior roles with The Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday and was Scottish correspondent for The Independent. His published novels include The Woman Who Walked into the Sea (Sandstone Press) and The Sea Detective (Penguin).

Job Titles:

• Editor
• Member of the Board

Rosemary Goring was formerly literary editor of Scotland on Sunday, followed by a brief spell as editor of Life & Work, the Church of Scotland's magazine, before returning to newspapers as literary editor of The Herald and The National, and later also of the Sunday Herald. She is the author of several books including: Scotland: The Autobiography: 2000 Years of Scottish History By Those Who Saw it Happen (Penguin), After Flodden, and Dacre's War (Polygon). And she is on the steering group for Emerging Critics.