Tom Morton
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Thomas Morton 31 December 1955 Carlisle, Cumbria, England |
| Residence | Shetland, Scotland |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Journalist author broadcaster |
| Known for | His books His broadcasting |
| Children | five, including James Morton |
| Website | Beatcroft.blogspot.co.uk |
Thomas "Tom" Morton (born 31 December 1955) is a Scottish writer, broadcaster, journalist and musician. He lives and works mainly in the Shetland Islands.
Morton is currently writing for the monthly magazine iScot, and the Shetland-based 60 North. He presents a weekly music radio show called The Beatcroft Social, broadcast on 60 North Radio from the Shetland Isles.
Until April 2015, Morton presented a BBC Radio Scotland show, broadcast Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights, from 10:00 pm to 1:00 am, a Scottish take on rock and pop from obscure blues to mainstream pop and soul and current independent releases.
He has written several books, including a biography of the Gaelic rock band Runrig, a whisky travelogue called Spirit of Adventure, and several critically acclaimed novels. A spy novel called Serpentine was published in the UK in 2009 and in the US and Canada the following year. For many years, he worked as a print journalist, as a columnist with the Daily and Sunday Express, Scotland on Sunday, The Big Issue in Scotland, The Shetland Times, and as a staff reporter with national newspaper The Scotsman. He was the first non-DC Thomson employee to script the legendary Sunday Post cartoon strips The Broons and Oor Wullie – something he did for 12 months in 2005 and 2006. A Whisky in Monsterville, "the first interactive malt whisky novel" was published in August 2013 by Looderhorn Books.
From November 2011 until January 2015 he edited the magazine "Shetland Life".
Born in Carlisle, Cumberland, England, but brought up by his Scottish family in Glasgow and Troon, Ayrshire, Morton's early years were characterised by committed evangelical Christianity which he alluded to in the novel Red Guitars in Heaven. Heavily involved in religious music during the 1970s and early 1980s, he released several albums and toured as a full-time evangelical singer. This period of Morton's life ended in 1984: a change referenced in several of his books.
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