Moon Country

Born in Glasgow in 1962, Peter Arnott began his career as a playwright in Scotlandin May 1985 with the simultaneous premieres of The Boxer Benny Lynch and White Rose. Forty-something plays later, he has won the Theatre Management, Fringe First and the Creative Scotland Award in 2007. He has been writer in residence at the Traverse, the Tron and the National Library of Scotland. His plays have been performed in London, Moscow, Melbourne and New York. Moon Country is his first novel.

"After serving a long sentence for a robbery in which two security guards were killed, Tommy Hunter is back on the street. A changed man, with a chilling resolve, he has a plan, a gun and a bagful of money, and both the police and the criminal fraternity are one step behind him all the way. Whatever he's up to, it's got something to do with his children and the wife he's suspected of murdering, but nobody can work out quite what. Moon Country works splendidly as a page-turner of a Scottish crime thriller, but Arnott's omniscient narrator has a foot in literary fiction too, unafraid of flaunting his vocabulary or his knowledge of philosophy and politics to try to place Tommy Hunter in some kind of moral framework. A veteran of more than 40 plays, Arnott has taken to the medium of the novel in style, wringing maximum effect out of every line in this consistently compelling and very satisfying debut." - The Herald