Blurred Faces

Allan Radcliffe is a multi award winning and shortlisted author from Scotland. His writing has won the Allen Wright Award and the Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award, and his debut novel The Old Haunts was shortlisted for both the Saltire Society First Book Award and the McKitterick Prize in 2024. His short stories have been published in anthologies including Out There, The Best Gay Short Stories and New Writing Scotland, and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. With an MA from the University of Glasgow, Allan Radcliffe works as an arts journalist and editor, and is currently a freelance theatre critic and feature writer. He was born in Perth, Scotland, and now lives near Edinburgh.

'Exquisite... tender and romantic and yet searing with gritty reality' -The Sunday Post‘Gentle,anguished, warm, real and wonderful’ —Irish Independent'A story of love and remembrance... evoked in rich imagery' -Edinburgh Evening News'An emotionally resonant tale of family dynamics and complex, fragile intimacies' -Scotland on Sunday'I was quietly moved by Allan Radcliffe's thoughtful, lovely story, steeped in vodka, bog-smell, and aging rain, about these wounded characters who tiptoe toward one another and risk the terrifying possibility of an un-haunted life. I want to believe they can do it.' -Jeanne Thornton, author of A/S/L and Summer Fun'An intimate tale of two souls attempting to find themselves, as well as each other. Character-driven yet cinematic, Blurred Faces is tenderly romantic and achingly poignant with a sharp complexity.' -Harker Jones, author of Until September'Radcliffe writes with an enviably economical and engaging style [...] Blurred Faces is probably the most clearly Edinburgh-focussed novel I have read for a long time.' -Books from Scotland'An impressive Edinburgh-set novel... Radcliffe has such mastery of his characters' -The ScotsmanPRAISE FOR ALLAN RADCLIFFE'S WRITING 'Each and every sentence has been so elegantly penned' -The Scots Magazine'So gentle, so warm, so human' -Rick O'Shea'There is much to admire... from the elegance and economy of the writing to the understanding of the emotional difficulties' -The Scotsman