Daniel Shand is a currently studying a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh. He has performed his work at the Edinburgh International Book Festival and was the winner of the University of Edinburgh’s Sloan Prize for Scots Fiction 2012 and of University of Dundee’s Creative Writing Award. His debut novel, Fallow, won the Betty Trask Award 2017 for a novel of outstanding literary merit.

Two brothers are bound together by a terrible crime in this prize-winning debut that has been called ‘a road trip… a modern Biblical parable and a tense psychological thriller with echoes of Iain Banks and Cormac McCarthy.’