The website of Murdo Morrison

Writer and author of Roses of Winter & A Hole Without Sides

Welcome to the website of Murdo Morrison, author of Roses of Winter and A Hole Without Sides.

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About the author

Murdo Morrison was born in Glasgow, Scotland and spent his early years in a room and kitchen in a tenement in Scotstoun similar to the one inhabited by the McIntyre family in his novel Roses of Winter.

Read about the author's life in a Glasgow tenement (PDF format).

The author's family has many links to shipyards, shipbuilding and the Merchant Navy. The adventures of Donald McIntyre and Charlie Burns in Roses of Winter are based to some extent on the real-life wartime service of his father and maternal grandfather. His paternal grandfather served in World War 1 and later worked for Glasgow Corporation Transport. Murdo's father Donald worked at Yarrow's shipyard in Scotstoun for over 30 years after the war.

The author attended Allan Glen's School and the University of Glasgow and completed his college degrees in Geography at Central Connecticut State College and Clark University. He retired recently after two decades of state service in the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection to work full-time as a writer.

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Roses of Winter is listed on Past Times Books, a website devoted to selected historical fiction ebooks.