In Conversation with Lisa Highton
S.G. MacLean (Shona) was born in Inverness and brought up in the Scottish Highlands. With an MA and PhD in History from the University of Aberdeen, she started writing historical fiction while bringing up her four children. She is the author of both the Alexander Seaton and the Damian Seeker series of historical crime, and the standalone thriller, The Bookseller of Inverness, Waterstone’s Scottish Book of the Year 2023. She has twice won the Crime Writers’ Association Historical Dagger.
Lisa Highton joined Jenny Brown Associates as an Associate Agent in 2022 and represents S G MacLean. In 2023 the agency held its inaugural Debut Novel Over 50 Award with over 1700 entries. Until 2021, Lisa was Publisher of Two Roads, an imprint of John Murray Press/Hachette where she published authors including Kirsty Wark, Sally Magnusson, Monty Don, Ruth Hogan and Janet Ellis. Over a long career in publishing both in the UK and Australia where she was publishing director of Doubleday, HarperCollins and then Hodder, Lisa has published many bestsellers. Her passions are distinctive storytelling (often historical) finding those hidden stories with emotional heart and then connecting those stories with readers.
The Historical Novel Society UK 2024 conference 