Mark Douglas-Home
Mark Douglas-Home is a journalist turned author. The Sea
Detective, his first novel, was published in 2011 to critical
praise. It introduced a new kind of investigator to crime fiction -
an oceanographer called Cal McGill who tracks floating objects,
including dead bodies, at sea. A sequel, The Woman Who Walked Into
The Sea, was published in April 2013 ('a classic whodunit,'
according to The Scotsman's respected reviewer Allan Massie).
Born 31 August 1951, he is the son of Edward Charles
Douglas-Home, himself the son of the 13th Earl of Home, and Nancy Rose Straker-Smith. He was educated at
Eton College and the University of the Witwatersrand.
Before writing books, Mark was editor of Scotland's leading
daily newspaper, The Herald, for five years and editor of The
Sunday Times Scotland. He has also held senior roles with The
Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday. When he was Scottish
correspondent of The Independent he reported on both the
Lockerbie and Piper Alpha disasters.
His career in journalism began as a student in South Africa
where he edited the newspaper at the University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. After the apartheid government
banned a number of editions, he was deported from the country.
He is married to Northern Irish journalist
Colette Douglas-Home -
who is a columnist for the Herald newspaper. The couple have two
childre, Rebecca, picture editor on ES (The Evening Standard)
Magazine. and Rory, director, public affairs and strategic
communications, at FTI Consulting in Brussels . He lives in Edinburgh.
Any contributions will be
gratefully accepted
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