Liam McIlvanney
@LiamMcIlvanney
Crime writer
Great evening at #NoAlibisBookstore this evening watching @LiamMcIlvanney talk about his new novel, #TheGoodFather, and possibly being a marked man on the west coast of Scotland.
‘It just so happens that the two best NZ novels of the year so far are both set in Britain…’ Well that’s a fairly promising start! Absolutely delighted that, a couple of legitimate quibbles aside, the great Steve Braunias enjoyed The Good Father…📚 newsroom.co.nz/2025/07/24/boo…
One of the world’s great bookshops in one of the world’s great cities. Brilliant night in No Alibis with Brian McGilloway, David Torrans and a fantastic crowd of readers. I’ll be back… 📚#TheGoodFather
Picked up this special Scotland issue of Irish Pages in the Linen Hall Library in Belfast today. Looks to be essential reading…
Great chatting to Martin Stewart for the July issue of Ayrshire Magazine…📚#TheGoodFather ayrshiremagazine.com/liam-mcilvanne…
Sitting in my Belfast hotel room reading one of the great Belfast novels. Wendy Erskine’s ability to immerse you in a character - to conjure a person into being in all their strangeness and vivid quiddity, across eight or nine pages - is kind of preternatural. Unfeasibly good…
In which I educate New Zealand readers about the joys of haddock…😉 stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360764…
And now for a spot of dinner. Where do you fancy…?🧐 #QuicheSeparabit
See you here at 6pm tomorrow, Belfast…! #TheGoodFather
Signed copies of The Good Father in @wstonesbelfast. Get them while they’re hot etc…📚
‘And you know you gotta go, / On that train from Dublin up to Sandy Row…’
Haddock and chips on the Belfast ferry. Not quite CalMac standard… #FerryFoodie
Nice wee piece in the Otago Daily Times back home…
Look at you making The Oddity back home while you sleep! Cheers @LiamMcIlvanney
So lovely to discuss The Good Father with the excellent Emile Donovan on Radio New Zealand back in my ‘other’ home…📚🇳🇿 rnz.co.nz/national/progr…
The Scottish ballads are one of the wellsprings of Tartan Noir. They loom large in my own new novel, The Good Father. I wrote about them for Shots Magazine… shotsmag.co.uk/feature_view.a…