
Rodge Glass
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Rodge Glass is the author of eight books published since 2005: three novels (No Fireworks, Hope for Newborns & Bring Me the Head of Ryan Giggs), one graphic novel (Dougie’s War, with Dave Turbitt), one collection of short stories (Stories for the EasyJet Generation), two biographies (Alasdair Gray: A Secretary’s Biography & Michel Faber: The Writer & his Work) and now Joshua in the Sky: A Blood Memoir (Taproot Press, September 2024). His work has been nominated for eight national or international awards including the Dylan Thomas Prize, he’s the winner of a Somerset Maugham Award for Nonfiction for his biography of Alasdair Gray, and most recently won the Anne Brown Essay Prize in 2023, for ‘On the Covenant’, which is a chapter from Joshua in the Sky.