Colin Douglas
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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.
A last much larger novel covered a longer timespan and was well-received as a more serious work than the earlier series.
Under his real name he has contributed to British Prime Minister
Gordon Brown
's speechwriting team.
Colin Douglas (actor)
Colin Douglas was an English actor. Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Douglas was educated at the Farm School in Cumberland...
Colin Douglas is the pseudonym of a Scottish novelist, Colin Thomas Currie, born in Glasgow in 1945, who was schooled at Hamilton Academy
Hamilton Academy
Hamilton Academy was a school situated in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland.Described as "one of the finest schools in Scotland" in the Cambridge University Press County Biography of 1910, Hamilton Academy featured in the Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association Magazine article series on...
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.
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
Prime minister
A prime minister is the most senior minister of cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. In many systems, the prime minister selects and may dismiss other members of the cabinet, and allocates posts to members within the government. In most systems, the prime...
Gordon Brown
Gordon Brown
James Gordon Brown is a British Labour Party politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 until 2010. He previously served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Labour Government from 1997 to 2007...
's speechwriting team.