Malcolm McKay.

Malcolm McKay has published four novels: THE PATH, about the personal, intellectual and spiritual inter-reaction between a group of international travelers on the Camino de Santiago. THE LACK BROTHERS, a journey by three brothers in search of their mother through a mythologised London of the last fifty years, published by Transworld; BREAKING UP, depicting the financial and interior collapse of a city trader as his domestic and professional life literally goes up in flames, published by Pegasus; and THISTOWN, a political novel for teenagers set in a mythical town somewhere in the universe which is impossible to escape from and where no-one gets older.

He spent many years as a writer and director for television. His writing has always dealt with extreme behaviour and includes the controversial BBC play AIRBASE which dealt metaphorically with drug abuse on a USAF base in England (the plays was mentioned in Parliament after Prime Minister Thatcher demanded a copy). His work also includes the multi-award winning A WANTED MAN trilogy one of the first television dramas to deal in depth with the arrest, trial and pychology of a serial killer. Several other controversial plays followed including YELLOWBACKS a dystopian take on the Aids epidemic. He has made three films for the BBC as writer and director, REDEMPTION, about a child killer, MARIA’S CHILD, the graphic description of a female dancer’s decision to abort her child and the subsequent doubts and difficulties of the process, and CRUEL TRAIN, an adaptation of Emil Zola's La Bete Humaine. He has also directed plays by Jim Cartwright and Jimmy McGovern again for the BBC. Most recently he adapted Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy (winner New York Critics Circle award) and wrote an eight part cop show for BBC ONE. His radio play ETIAN about a woman's recovery from rape was nominated for a Prix Italia award.

He has written many plays for the theatre including HARRY MIXTURE about a South London gangster; PISTOLS which describes the final hours of the punk band; RENAISSANCE, an insight into the mental collapse of a lawyer as his family breaks up around him; THE PEOPLE’S TEMPLE details the slow descent of the Californian cult into paranoia and mass suicide; and FORGOTTEN VOICES and adaptation of the best-selling oral history of the first world war for the Edinburgh festival.

Malcolm Mckay has been a writer for forty years. �