Photo Credit: Calum Colvin
Alan Spence is an award winning poet, playwright, novelist and short story
writer. His awards include the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award,
the Macallan Short Story Prize and the McVitie Prize for Scottish
Writer of the Year. He is Professor in Creative Writing at the
University of Aberdeen, where he is also Artistic Director of the
annual WORD Festival.
Set under the skies of eighteenth-century Japan, Night Boat is a tale of fear, devotion and the power of the spirit against all odds