Louise Welsh is an award-winning author of ten novels. The Cutting Room, her debut novel, won the Crime Writers' Association John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award and the Saltire First Book of The Year Award. In 2018, she was named the Most Inspiring Saltire First Book Award winner by public vote. She is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. In 2022 she published The Second Cut, which was shortlisted for the Bloody Scotland McIlvanney Prize for Crime Book of the Year and named by The Times as their Crime Book of the Year. @louisewelsh00
Praise for Louise Welsh's CUTTING ROOM books: 'Rilke's return is a treat' -- PAULA HAWKINS Intriguing, assured and unputdownable * * Sunday Times * * Astonishing . . . Rilke is a true original * * The Times * * I doubt I'll read a better book this year. Dark, funny and humane -- VAL McDERMID Compelling, immersive and brimming with life -- GRAEME MACRAE BURNET Richly layered, gloriously carnal, bursting with patter and irresistibly seductive -- CHRIS BROOKMYRE Rilke's world feels rife with possibilities . . . and Welsh's writing is fresh, funny, fearless and fun -- JOSEPH KNOX