Colin Douglas

This article relates to Colin Douglas the Scottish Author, the following is a link to Colin Douglas the British TV actor Colin Douglas (actor)

Colin Douglas is the pseudonym of a Scottish novelist, Colin Thomas Currie, born in Glasgow in 1945, who was schooled at Hamilton Academy before graduating in medicine at Edinburgh University in 1970.

He wrote a series of mainly humorous novels following the career of a young Edinburgh medical graduate (David Campbell) from the late 1960s into the 70s and possibly 80s. The characters and situations appear exaggerated, but many of the most bizarre are recognisable, but altered and occasionally composite, figures from the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and related institutions. The first novel, "The Houseman's Tale," was made into a short series by BBC Television in 1986 but not shown, after being held back for censorship, until 1987.^[1]

Works

• The Houseman's Tale (1975)

Edinburgh: Canongate ISBN 0903937042

• The Greatest Breakthrough Since Lunchtime (1977)

Edinburgh: Canongate ISBN 0903937387

• Bleeders Come First (1979)

Edinburgh: Canongate ISBN 0903937689

• Wellies from the Queen (1981)

London: Hutchinson ISBN 0091437601

• A Cure for Living (1983)

London: Hutchinson ISBN 0091513200

• For Services to Medicine (1985)

London: Hutchinson ISBN 0091595401

• Ethics Made Easy (1985)

Mainstream ISBN 085158014X

• Hazards of the Profession (1987)

Mainstream ISBN 1851580654

A last much larger novel covered a longer timespan and was well-received as a more serious work than the earlier series.

• Sickness & Health (1991)

London: Heinnemann ISBN 0434204242

Under his real name he has contributed to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's speechwriting team.^[2]

References

1. ^ Alan Taylor "Difficult case for the doctor" The Scotsman 3rd April 1986
2. ^ Wanted: inspiring speechwriter. Excellent knowledge of Kirkcaldy history essential | Politics | The Guardian

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