Author Peter May: I was invited back to talk to the kids, and the headmaster whispered: 'Don't tell them you were expelled'
Brian Beacom TALKING to Peter May on a Zoom video call soon brings about a feeling that I don’t wish him well at all. Not quite wanting the Glasgow-born writer murdered you understand, buried, like the victim in his latest book beneath a street pipeline, his remains allowed to quietly rot until exhumed by escaping tree roots. Yet, nevertheless... how can I ignore the fact that he was also once a journalist on the Evening Times, and used the Glasgow paper as a springboard to a career in best-seller writing, with almost 30 novels to his name? How can I push aside the fact that while m...