Alan Parks (writer)
{{Short description|Scottish crime writer (born 1963)}}
Alan Parks (born 1963) is a Scottish crime writer in the Tartan Noir genre.{{cite web |title=Alan Parks – Canongate Books |url=https://canongate.co.uk/contributors/12524-alan-parks/ |website=canongate.co.uk |access-date=30 September 2022 |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Handel |first1=Peter |title=Alan Parks on Drugs, Noir, and Glasgow in the 1970s |url=https://crimereads.com/alan-parks-on-drugs-noir-and-glasgow-in-the-1970s/ |access-date=30 September 2022 |work=CrimeReads |date=9 April 2021}} His fifth novel May God Forgive won the 2022 McIlvanney Prize as the best Scottish crime book of the year.{{cite web |title=Winners revealed for the McIlvanney Prize 2022 & the Bloody Scotland Debut Prize |url=https://bloodyscotland.com/announcements/winners-revealed-for-the-mcilvanney-prize-2022-the-bloody-scotland-debut-prize/ |publisher=Bloody Scotland |access-date=30 September 2022 |date=16 September 2022}}
His novels, each including a month of the year in its title, are set in 1970s Glasgow and feature "rather bent copper" Harry McCoy. May God Forgive was shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger.{{Cite web |last= |date=2023-05-17 |title=The 2023 CWA Daggers Shortlists Have Been Announced |url=https://www.ianfleming.com/the-2023-cwa-daggers-shortlists-have-been-announced/ |access-date=2023-07-10 |website=Ian Fleming |language=en-GB}}
Selected publications
- Bloody January (2017){{cite news |title=Book review: Bloody January, by Alan Parks |url=https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/book-review-bloody-january-alan-parks-1433306 |access-date=30 September 2022 |work=www.scotsman.com |date=17 January 2018 |language=en}}
- February's Son (2019){{cite news |title=Book review: February's Son by Alan Parks |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/arts_ents/17355653.book-review-februarys-son-alan-parks/ |access-date=30 September 2022 |work=HeraldScotland |date=20 January 2019 |language=en}}
- Bobby March Will Live For Ever (2020){{cite news |title=Bobby March Will Live Forever Review |url=http://www.crimereview.co.uk/page.php/review/8625 |access-date=30 September 2022 |work=www.crimereview.co.uk |date=4 July 2020}}
- The April Dead (2021){{cite news |title=Bloody January |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/alan-parks/bloody-january/ |access-date=30 September 2022 |work=Kirkus Reviews |date=24 December 2017 |language=en}}{{cite news |title=The April Dead by Alan Parks |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781609456870 |access-date=30 September 2022 |work=www.publishersweekly.com |date=}}
- May God Forgive (2022){{cite news |title=Book Review: May God Forgive, by Alan Parks |url=https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/books/book-review-may-god-forgive-by-alan-parks-3671963 |access-date=30 September 2022 |work=www.scotsman.com |date=27 April 2022 |language=en}}
- To Die in June (2023)
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Category:21st-century Scottish novelists
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