J.David Simons


Photograph by Walter J. Wolfe

J.David Simons was born in Glasgow in 1953. He studied law at Glasgow University and became a partner at an Edinburgh law firm before giving up his practice to live on a kibbutz in Israel in 1978. Since then he has also lived in England, Germany, Australia and Japan, working at various stages along the way as a charity administrator, cotton farmer, language teacher, lecturer and journalist. His first novel, The Credit Draper, was published by Two Ravens Press in May 2008, and was short-listed for The McKitterick Prize in June 2009. He has been awarded a Writer's Bursary from The Scottish Arts Council to assist in the completion of a second novel, provisionally entitled Celia's Story.

To read a synopsis and an extract from The Credit Draper, please click on the title below: