Welcome back Martin Maclnnes!

Martin MacInnes is a writer from the north of Scotland whose most recent novel, In Ascension (2023), was published in 12 languages, longlisted for the Booker Prize, and named one of Barack Obama's top ten books of the year. He has won the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the Saltire Prize for fiction, and his work is currently optioned for film. He is interested in deep time, planetary interconnectedness, and the interplay between the human and the more-than-human. Martin is in Svalbard researching and writing his fourth novel.