Graeme Macrae Burnet

Graeme
Macrae Burnet

Born in Kilmarnock, Graeme Macrae Burnet  is among the UK’s leading contemporary novelists, having achieved both critical acclaim and best-selling status around the world. He lives in Glasgow, where he studied film and English literature.

After teaching English overseas and working in the television industry, he won a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award in 2013 and now writes full-time. He is best known for his dazzling Booker-shortlisted  His Bloody Project.

Graeme is also the author of two French-set detective novels: The Disappearance of Adele Bedeau (2014) and The Accident on the A35 (2017). Booker Prize-longlisted Case Study is his fourth novel.

Born in Kilmarnock, Graeme Macrae Burnet  is among the UK’s leading contemporary novelists, having achieved both critical acclaim and best-selling status around the world. He lives in Glasgow, where he studied film and English literature.

After teaching English overseas and working in the television industry, he won a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award in 2013 and now writes full-time. He is best known for his dazzling Booker-shortlisted  His Bloody Project.

Graeme is also the author of two French-set detective novels: The Disappearance of Adele Bedeau (2014) and The Accident on the A35 (2017). Booker Prize-longlisted Case Study is his fourth novel.

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