Career
She has written 13 novels, Little Egypt being the most recent, one play and numerous short stories and radio plays. She is a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Street Andrews, and is a regular contributor of book reviews to the Spectator and The Times. Her subject matter is often serious (murder, madness and obsession crop up regularly in her books) but with a thread of dark humour running through lieutenant
Her first play, Bird Calls was performed at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, in 2003.
Glaister is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She is currently writer in residence at the University of Edinburgh.