A schools campus in East Ayrshire is set to be named after the celebrated Scottish novelist William McIlvanney, who died last month aged 79. The £45m facility, to be built at Sutherland Drive in ...

LEGENDARY Scots author William McIlvanney is to have new education campus containing his old school named after him. Councillors in Kilmarnock decided to honour the locally-born writer who died ...

A CAMPAIGN group has been set up to create a permanent memorial to celebrated Scots author William McIlvanney in his hometown of Kilmarnock. McIlvanney, who was known as the godfather of Tartan ...

William McIlvanney, who has died at the age of 79 after a short illness, was one of Scotland's finest writers and the godfather of “Tartan Noir”, that genre of gritty Caledonian crime-writing ...

William Angus McIlvanney was born in Kilmarnock to a mining family on November 25 1936. His father was intelligent, but “educated below his ability”, his mother, Helen Montgomery, a rock.

A schools campus in East Ayrshire is set to be named after the celebrated Scottish novelist William McIlvanney, who died last month aged 79. The £45m facility, to be built at Sutherland Drive in ...

A schools campus in East Ayrshire is set to be named after the celebrated Scottish novelist William McIlvanney, who died in December.

Kilmarnock’s new superschool campus is to be named after Willie McIlvanney. In a surprise move, East Ayrshire Council’s cabinet opted on Wednesday not to name the Sutherland Drive campus after ...