BIOGRAPHY

Anna Smith is an award winning journalist, formerly chief reporter of the Daily Record in Scotland, and now a columnist with the News of the World.
She divides her time between her homes in Scotland and the West of Ireland.
Her debut novel, Spit Against The Wind, launched her career to much critical acclaim, and one leading newspaper described Smith as ‘a powerful new voice in Scottish fiction.’
Spit continues to sell well in the UK and Australia and has been published in Germany.
Her second novel, The Homecoming, published in hardback and paperback was also well received. The Herald in Scotland said: ‘Smith writes with effortless prose.’
Smith and has spent a lifetime in daily newspapers. In a career spanning 24 years, she has covered wars across the world, as well as major investigations and news stories from Belfast to Dunblane to 9/11.
In her News of the World column, Anna pulls no punches with her outspoken views on everything from politics to showbiz, but with a dash of humour - and always speaking up for the disadvantaged.
Her style of writing as a journalist won her many awards and she has transferred that gritty, colourful way of writing to fiction, bringing alive the characters in her novels.