Alan Taylor is a writer, journalist and Editor of the Scottish Review of Books and Associate Editor of the Sunday Herald. Formerly, he worked for Scotland on Sunday and the Scotsman, where he was Managing Editor. Taylor has contributed to publications such as the TLS, The New Yorker and The Melbourne Age, and edited four acclaimed anthologies – The Assassin’s Cloak (2000), The Secret Annexe (2004), The Country Diaries (2009) and most recently, Glasgow: The Autobiography (2016). He is a former Man Booker prize judge, and has previously worked as a reference librarian. His most recent book, Appointment in Arezzo: a Friendship with Muriel Spark, documents his relationship with the late author on the centenary of her birth.

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Appointment in Arezzo: A Friendship with Muriel Spark: Alan Taylor talks to Geoffrey Baskerville about his latest book Appointment in Arezzo, documenting his friendship with the late Muriel Spark, and shedding light on the author’s remarkable life. (2018)