Teddy Jamieson

Senior Features Writer

Born in Germany, raised in Northern Ireland, resident in Scotland more or less since 1982.  Fond of tea, Tottenham Hotspur and Touch of Evil. I’ve written one book (Whose Side Are You On?, Yellow Jersey, 2011), and interviewed Tracey Emin twice.   Hopefully no one holds either against me.

Born in Germany, raised in Northern Ireland, resident in Scotland more or less since 1982.  Fond of tea, Tottenham Hotspur and Touch of Evil. I’ve written one book (Whose Side Are You On?, Yellow Jersey, 2011), and interviewed Tracey Emin twice.   Hopefully no one holds either against me.

Latest articles from Teddy Jamieson

10 smartest crime novels to read next: all thriller, no filler

Harriet Tyce made her name with her 2019 debut Blood Orange, a #MeToo noir story that found an audience during the Covid lockdowns. Two more thrillers followed and she now returns in 2024 with A Lesson in Cruelty that lives up to its title. The story jumps between three women: Anna, who is about to be released from prison, Lucy who is an Oxford student infatuated with her Professor and Marie, a recluse in the Scottish Highlands. Three seemingly separate stories are then woven together over the course of the novel, a mark of Tyce’s technical control.

How Ally McCoist inspired a new Scottish crimefighter

IN a lane off Renfield Street in Glasgow Callum McSorley is having his photograph taken. Standing on top of a brick on the ground and trying hard not to stumble forward into the murky, rain-filled bucket just in front of him, he is recalling the days when he used to work as a kitchen porter in the restaurant on the corner next to us.