Jean Findlay has a lifetime’s experience in literature as a playwright, journalist, author and – for the last five years – as an independent publisher at Scotland Street Press in Edinburgh. Her first book was published by Chatto and Windus and Vintage in London and Farrar, Straus and Giroux in New York. The book was shortlisted for a Lamda Award in New York in 2016. Since 2014, she has been working on an historical novel set at the turn of the 16th/17th century in Denmark, Edinburgh and London.
She has spoken at the Edinburgh Book Festival, the Jaipur Book Festival in India, The Centre for Fiction in New York, the Boston Atheneum, The Savile Club in London, Bregenz in Austria, Wigton Book Festival, New York University Graduate Centre, The Saltire Society, Edinburgh University Chaplaincy, and many more. She has also been invited by the Boni Institute in New York to talk on CK Scott Moncrieff and on setting up a new publishing house. Seen here in Edinburgh, Scotland UK 02/09/2026
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Jean Findlay discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.
Jean Findlay is the author of Chasing Lost Time – the Life of CK Scott Moncrieff, Soldier, Spy and Translator published in 2014 by Chatto and Windus, London, and by FSG, New York. The Queen’s Lender was awarded the Hawthornden Fellowship 2018 and Lavigny International Writer’s Fellowship 2019. Her new book is The Bohemian Queen.
- The origin of the term Bohemian https://villagepreservation.org/2013/04/16/how-bohemians-got-their-name/
- That Europe had a war that lasted Thirty years https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/30-years-war-1618-48-and-second-defenestration-prague
- Sectarianism didn’t originate in Glasgow and Edinburgh https://fpc.org.uk/northern-ireland-still-a-deeply-divided-society/
- There are 250 types of bumble bees www.bumblebeeconservation.org
- People have been using fake news to slander and discredit public figures since the beginning of time https://theconversation.com/medieval-england-loved-rumours-conspiracies-and-fake-news-about-queens-227111
- That Gregorian Chant hits a sound level that heals your body https://www.tfp.org/how-gregorian-chant-benefits-the-health-of-the-bodyand-soul/
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