Iain Kelly lives in East Kilbride, near Glasgow in Scotland, where he spends most of his time raising his twin son and daughter. In his spare time he works as an editor of television programmes. After 17 years with the BBC, he recently moved to join Savalas Post in Glasgow. When not doing either of those things he writes stories, reads stories and watches stories.

His first novel, A Justified State, was published in late 2018, and the follow-up, State Of Denial, was released in 2019. The conclusion to ‘The State’ trilogy, ‘State Of War’, was released in May 2020. ‘The State Trilogy’ books are available in paperback and eBooks from Amazon.

‘The Barra Boy,’ was published by The Book Guild Ltd in June 2022. It’s available to from a wide range of booksellers, both online and instore.

In 2024, he again teamed up with The Book Guild Ltd to publish his latest novel, a historical thriller, ‘All We Cannot Leave Behind’.

A collection of early short pieces, Collected Sketches, was published in late 2016 and is available on Amazon.

To contact Iain for any appearance, event or media enquiries:
email: iainthekid@hotmail.com
or
telephone: 07885519979