about me

Alexander Lindsay was born in Ayrshire, Scotland. As an international journalist he has lived and worked in the Middle East, New York, Paris, the UK, Ireland and the Greek Islands. Based in Belfast, he covered the Northern Ireland conflict as staff correspondent for the Sunday Express, during which time his main claim to fame was being ignominiously blown off the lavatory seat by an IRA bomb at his office. He sustained moderate injuries to his head and major ones to his dignity. He has been newspaper and magazine editor, national newspaper theatre critic, feature writer and magazine columnist.

He has covered major UK stories ranging from the scene of the Lockerbie air disaster, to the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper.

On a lighter note, his assignments have included:


• Flying as part of a trapeze act.

• Doing battle as a knight at Camelot. (Sir Lackalot, the Shortest Knight of the Year.)

• Gaining a private pilot’s licence.

• Having an ice cream named after him upon challenging the Italian national champion to make the most bizarre, but still palatable, flavour imaginable. Result: Gelato Alexander, a somewhat academic concoction of Gorgonzola cheese and onion.

He now lives in West Lancashire, England, with his wife, three rescue cats and several peacocks, and has put journalism on the back boiler to concentrate full time on writing fiction.

His first novel, an upmarket thriller and bizarre love story based on actual events, unfolding against the backdrop of probably the boldest gamble any nation has ever taken, is published by Robert Hale Ltd on April 30 2012.. He is now hard at work on a second novel.

favourite books

The Grapes of Wrath. Brideshead Revisited. Cold Comfort Farm. Dr Zhivago. All of Dickens. Wuthering Heights. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. War and Peace.

my websites

alexanderlindsay.com     alexanderlindsay.co.uk