James Morton is the author of five books including Brilliant Bread, which won the Guild of Food Writers Cookbook of the Year award in 2014, Why Baking Works (2015), Brew (2016) and Shetland: Cooking on the Edge of the World (2018). In 2012 he reached the final of BBC TV’s Great British Bake Off. He works as a doctor in Glasgow, owns a brewery in the city, and has won several national home brewing awards.