Iain Finlayson


Iain Finlayson is a Scottish writer and journalist.
Finlayson has written biographies of James Boswell and Robert Browning, as well as books about Romney Marsh, the Scots, denim and Tangier.
He was books editor of Saga Magazine, and reviewed books for The Times.
Under the collective pseudonym Matthew McAllister, he and Simon Burt have written a crime novel, Blood Month, published electronically under their imprint Atrium Editions.
Iain Finlayson lives & works in Hay-on-Wye, Wales.

Works

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