ALAN WINDRAM
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​Hi there, thanks for visiting my website. This page is where you find out a little bit about me. 
I have done loads of things in the past that have led me on a winding road to where I am today.

I wanted to be a cowboy when I was little but unfortunately I couldn't ride a horse so that didn't happen. I started off as a hairdresser (as you can see from my latest hairstyle that really worked well :) then spent time in Africa for a year doing voluntary work. I was then a hospital cleaner and up until moving North I was an operating theatre staff nurse.

I have always been interested in music and drama so in my spare time I became involved in a children's theatre company called Sticky Kids touring for over 12 years. I was the singer-songwriter in an indie rock/pop band called Splendid releasing 3 albums and touring with some of Scotland's top acts. Check out some of my children's and adult music by clicking here.

About 4 years ago I started to write picture books and in 2016 my wife and I set up a children's publishing company called Little Door Books. Together we published my first picture books then started to work with some exciting new illustrators and amazing award-winning authors including Vivian French, Barry Hutchison, Sara Sheridan, Pippa Goodhart, Emily Dodd and award-winning musician and author Colin MacIntyre.

I still write music for all my books and for lots of the books we publish at Little Door Books and music features heavily in my author events.

​In 2018 my most recent picture book One Button Benny was shortlisted for the Shrewsbury Picture book award and also the Bookbug Picture Book Prize.

As a publisher I was Highly Commended as an Emerging Publisher in the 2018 Saltire Awards.

​In early 2019 I was announced as the winner of the 2019 Bookbug Picture Book Prize along with illustrator Chloe Holwill-Hunter for our picture book One Button Benny.

In late 2019 I won the Saltire Society Emerging Publisher of the Year
​(joint win)
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​I now live in the West coast of Scotland near Oban with my wife and two mischievous cats Sparky and George.




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  • Home
  • About
  • books
    • One Button Benny
    • One Button Benny and the Gigantic Catastrophe
    • A Puppy's Tale
    • Mac and Bob - The Unexpected Visitor
    • Mac and Bob - The Party Problem
  • events
  • Contact