Having lived in Edinburgh for 15 years, Garth's knowledge of the city and it's culture lead to an opportunity to work with Tony Black, the author of the "Gus Dury" novels. He has now recorded 4 of Tony's novel and is currently working on a 5th. Although having never met, Garth and Tony were brought together by a mutual journalistic acquaintance, Andrew Midgley, Garth's former manager and one of Tony's colleagues at Edinburgh newspaper The Scotsman.

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Tony Black was born in Australia and grew up in Scotland and Ireland.
Based in Edinburgh he is an award-winning journalist, editor, and novelist. His journalism has appeared in the UK national press and his short fiction in a variety of publications.
He is the author of the novels: PAYING FOR IT, GUTTED, LOSS, LONG TIME DEAD, TRUTH LIES BLEEDING,  MURDER MILE, THE STORM WITHOUT, HIS FATHER'S SON, THE INGLORIOUS DEAD, THE LAST TIGER and ARTEFACTS OF THE DEAD.

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Truth Lies Bleeding, by Tony Black
"Someone told me that this was less violent than Black's last, Long Time Dead, featuring a body hanging from a rafter in Edinburgh by a barbed-wire noose, which smacked of belt and braces to me. This one opens with the mutilated body of a young girl being dumped in a Glasgow dustbin and gets bloodier, but I now realise that it's Garth Cruickshank's reading that is so unsettling. Best listen with the light on"
The Guardian