Doug Johnstone admits he had a rather strange, circuitous route to becoming an author. Growing up in Arbroath, he went to Edinburgh University to study physics, eventually getting a PhD in nuclear physics.
Doug Johnstone, who grew up in Arbroath, has set parts of his latest novel in Dundee, as the main character, Finn Sullivan, is studying at the city’s Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design.