Catherine Czerkawska

Wormwood – about the Chernobyl disaster – was produced at Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre in 1997, while her novel The Curiosity Cabinet was shortlisted for the Dundee Book Prize in 2005.

When we hear of wives carrying husbands on their backs through the shallows to the boat, as happened in the old days, it isn't really an example of outrageous masculine superiority!

It was simply much more practical for the woman to go back and dry herself beside her own fire (her house would be close beside the beach anyway) than for her husband to spend uncomfortable hours in a boat which would be quite damp enough anyway!

[2] Through the 1980s and 90s she continued to write successfully for radio and for television including a six-part series for STV, called Shadow of the Stone, starring Alan Cumming and Shirley Henderson.

She worked for several years with artistic director John Murtagh on Borderline Theatre's community projects, including The Devil and Mary Lamont/Bonnie Blue Hen, 1995[2]), .

The Curiosity Cabinet, a novel based on a trilogy of the author's own radio plays of the same name, was shortlisted for the Dundee Book Prize in 2005 and subsequently published by Saraband.

[citation needed] Her recent works, all published by Saraband include: The Physic Garden, The Jewel, and in 2019, A Proper Person to be Detained.