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name: Stuart    Campbell
about: Before becoming a full-time writer, Stuart Campbell worked as a book seller, English teacher and Mental Health trainer. For ten years he was employed by Health in Mind, an Edinburgh based mental health charity. His experience of supporting vulnerable adults in a Leith based hostel helped shape the central character in John McPake and the Sea Beggers, his first novel which has been recently adapted for the stage. He has previously written for the BBC, The Guardian, and The Scottish Book Collector. He is the editor of RLS in Love, an anthology of Robert Louis Stevenson’s love poetry, and author of Boswell’s Bus Pass, a travelogue of modern Scotland following in the footsteps of Dr Samuel Johnson and James Boswell. He has written a second nove Before becoming a full-time writer, Stuart Campbell worked as a book seller, English teacher and Mental Health trainer. For ten years he was employed by Health in Mind, an Edinburgh based mental health charity. His experience of supporting vulnerable adults in a Leith based hostel helped shape the central character in John McPake and the Sea Beggers, his first novel which has been recently adapted for the stage. He has previously written for the BBC, The Guardian, and The Scottish Book Collector. He is the editor of RLS in Love, an anthology of Robert Louis Stevenson’s love poetry, and author of Boswell’s Bus Pass, a travelogue of modern Scotland following in the footsteps of Dr Samuel Johnson and James Boswell. He has written a second novel, The Aeronaut’s Guide to Rapture, and most recently Daniel Defoe’s Railway Journey, a surreal account of his journey across the entire railway network of Great Britain. All his books have been published by Sandstone Press. Stuart now lives in the East End of Glasgow with his wife, Morag. He is a graduate of Aberdeen and Strathclyde Universities. He has four grown up children, and his obsessions include Robert Louis Stevenson and, more recently, the phenomenon of Walking Football. ...more