Carlos Alba

(born August 1965 - ) - Glasgow

Carlos Alba is a journalist, media consultant and novelist from Glasgow. He attended Glasgow High School and studied for a BA in Politics and Sociology at the University of Strathclyde, graduating in 1988. A twenty-year career in journalism followed, writing and reporting for papers in Dumfries and Galloway, Aberdeen and Edinburgh, eventually becoming Editor of The Sunday Times Scotland. He has won five national journalism awards. He now runs a media consultancy company Carlos Alba Media.

In 2001 he co-authored Keeping the Faith: The Story of Celtic's Historic Treble Winning Season 2000-2001 with Ron Mackenna. His début novel, Kane's Ladder, was published in 2008, and his second novel The Songs of Manolo Escobar, about the experiences of growing up Spanish in Scotland, was published in 2011.

Carlos Alba is married with 3 children, and lives in Glasgow.

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Kane's Ladder
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Set in Glasgow in 1975, this is the story of ten-year-old Steve Duff, who lives in one of the city's new build estates. His frustratingly conventional middle-class family suddenly gets interesting when his father has an affair, his mother starts a psychology degree, his sister gets arrested and his brother gets a girl pregnant.
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The Songs Of Manolo Escobar
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For Antonio, growing up Spanish in Glasgow is a nightmare - one of shame and potential embarrassment on every front. It is only as he grows older, and can see his bullying father for what he is - a reluctant exile washed up on the cold shores of Scotland - that he begins to understand what terrible forces drove his father to flee 40 years before.