Colin Douglas (novelist)

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Colin Thomas Currie, CBE (born 1945), writes under the name Colin Douglas. He is a Scottish novelist from Glasgow. He trained as a doctor and graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1970. He wrote a series of darkly funny novels about a young Edinburgh doctor named David Campbell, set from the late 1960s to the 1980s. The characters are exaggerated but based on real people from Edinburgh’s hospitals. His first novel, The Houseman’s Tale, was adapted for a BBC TV short in 1986 but wasn’t shown until 1987 because of censorship. His later, longer novel was more serious and well received. Under his real name, Currie helped write speeches for Prime Minister Gordon Brown. He was named MBE in 2016 for services to medicine and CBE in 2020 for charitable and political services.