Peter Dorward
(born 1963 - ) - St Andrews, Fife
Peter Dorward was born in St Andrews in 1963. Having been a hop-picker, an aid-worker in the Bolivian Andes, pub musician and a runner for a film crew, he now works as a GP and medical teacher in Edinburgh, where he lives with his partner Deborah and their two boys. Peter Dorward is a winner of the 2000 Canongate/Waterstones short story prize and the 1997 Fish short story competition. Nightingale, set in Bologna in 1980, is his first novel.
- Nightingale
'Nightingale' takes an unsentimental and vivid look at the lives of a small group of Italian terrorists and the naive Scottish musician who finds himself in their midst.
Bibliography
- Nightingale - 2007