Andrew O’Hagan was born in Glasgow in 1968 and grew up in Ayrshire. He is a contributing editor to the London Review of Books. His first book, THE MISSING, was named 'an international book of the year' in The Times Literary Supplement. It was shortlisted for the Esquire Award, the Saltire First Book Award, and the Scottish Writer of the Year Award, and a chapter was adapted for television, as CALLING BIBLE JOHN, winning a Bafta award. Andrew’s first novel, OUR FATHERS, was published to great critical acclaim by Faber in 1999 and was short-listed for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread First Novel Award. His essay in the LRB, 'The End of British Farming', was published in book form by Profile in May 2001. His second novel, PERSONALITY, was published by Faber in 2003 and won the prestigious James Tait Black Prize. In the same year Andrew was named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. Andrew has also been awarded the E M Forster Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, one of the highest distinctions a British author can receive in the United States. His third novel, BE NEAR ME, was published by Faber in August 2006. It was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and won the Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction. It has now been adapted into a play, which ran at the Donmar Warehouse for several weeks in the spring of 2009. A collection of essays, THE ATLANTIC OCEAN, was published in June 2008.

Andrew has recently published his new novel, THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF MAF THE DOG, AND HIS FRIEND MARILYN MONROE.

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BE NEAR ME - When David Anderton, an English priest, takes over a Scottish parish, not everyone is ready to accept him. He makes friends with two local youths, Mark and Lisa, and clashes with a world he can...
OUR FATHERS - Jamie Bawn has escaped the straitened circumstances of his childhood and adolescence in Glasgow and Ayrshire. But now, sitting by his grandfather’s deathbed in a tower block, he is wondering whether...
PERSONALITY - Maria Tambini is a child prodigy. Born to an immigrant Italian family living on the Isle of Bute in Scotland, she is a singer of phenomenal talent. Diminutive in stature, she has the voice of a...
THE ATLANTIC OCEAN - 'I grew up with the decline of Britain and the rise of America. We didn’t know it then, but it would become the period of Greenham Common and The Falklands, the end of heavy British industry and the...
THE ILLUMINATIONS - Luke Campbell is a young Scottish army captain who first got interested in combat by playing video games. Now serving in Afghanistan as part of a convoy taking equipment across Helmand to a new...
THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF MAF THE DOG, AND HIS FRIEND MARILYN MONROE - In 1960 Frank Sinatra gave his friend Marilyn Monroe a dog. She called it Mafia Honey. The dog was born in Scotland. He was with Marilyn for the last two years of her life. She took him everywhere and...