Chris Brookmyre is the author of Boiling a Frog, Country of the Blind, Not the End of the World, One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night, Be My Enemy, All Fun and Games until Somebody Loses an Eye, Hard Black Pencil, A Tale Etched in Blood, and A Big Boy Did it and Ran Away. He was a journalist before becoming a full-time novelist with the publication of Quite Ugly One Morning.
His latest book, Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks, has been praised widely. He is also known for his views on football. Christopher Brookmyre has won the 2007 Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award for Writing.