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 in 1978 to live on a kibbutz in Israel. Since then he has lived in Australia, Japan and England working at various stages along the way as a charity administrator, cotton farmer, language teacher, university lecturer and journalist. He returned to Glasgow in 2006.
His first novel, The Credit Draper was published in May 2008 by Two Ravens Press and was short-listed for The McKitterick Prize in June 2009. His second novel The Liberation of Celia Kahn, was published along with a re-print of The Credit Draper - by Five Leaves Publishing in February 2011.
He has been the recipient of a Writer's Bursary from the Scottish Arts Council (now Creative Scotland) and awards from the Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship and the Society of Authors Foundation.
His first novel, The Credit Draper was published in May 2008 by Two Ravens Press and was short-listed for The McKitterick Prize in June 2009. His second novel The Liberation of Celia Kahn, was published along with a re-print of The Credit Draper - by Five Leaves Publishing in February 2011.
He has been the recipient of a Writer's Bursary from the Scottish Arts Council (now Creative Scotland) and awards from the Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship and the Society of Authors Foundation.
New and upcoming books
Novels
The Credit Draper (2008)
The Liberation of Celia Kahn (2011)
An Exquisite Sense of What is Beautiful (2013)
The Land Agent (2014)
A Woman of Integrity (2017)
The Responsibility of Love (2021)
The Interview (2024)
The Liberation of Celia Kahn (2011)
An Exquisite Sense of What is Beautiful (2013)
The Land Agent (2014)
A Woman of Integrity (2017)
The Responsibility of Love (2021)
The Interview (2024)
