About

Merryn Glover is the award-winning author of fiction, drama, poetry and journalism. In a life spent crossing cultures, she was brought up in South Asia, went to University in Australia and has called Scotland home for 30 years. Her plays and short stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and Radio Scotland. Her first novel, A House Called Askival is set in an Indian hill-station, and her second, Of Stone and Sky, in the Badenoch region of the Cairngorms where she now lives. It won Book of the Year at the Bookmark Festival and was long-listed for the Highland Book Prize. In 2019, Merryn was the first Writer in Residence for the Cairngorms National Park and is a regular contributor to the Guardian Country Diary. Her newest book is The Hidden Fires: A Cairngorms Journey with Nan Shepherd, short-listed for the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature and The Great Outdoors Book of the Year.