Born of mixed Highland and Lowland parentage and brought up in Ayrshire, Alistair Mair was a medical student at Glasgow University in the 1940s. After graduation he worked for a year in a Glasgow hospital and spent two years in the R. A. F., mainly as a pathologist in the Tropical Medicine Unit. Two more years in hospitals after demobilization were followed by a long journey to China and Japan as ship’s surgeon. He married a girl from Melbourne and with her he returned to Scotland where he set up in general practice. During the next ten years of unremitting work as a doctor he began to publish his first books, and a son and daughter were born to the Mairs. Late in 1962 he decided to make writing a full time occupation and went with his family to live in an Argyllshire village.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Rue With A Difference (1955)
The Douglas Affair (1966)
Yesterday Was Summer (1968)
Where The East Wind Blows (1972)
Turning Point (1974)
The Devil’s Minister (1961)
The Man Within (1959)
The Seventeenth Laird (1957)
Diana and the Wise Man (1957)
The Ripening Time (1970)
