Carlos Alba Biography

Carlos Alba is an award-winning freelance journalist, newspaper columnist and author based in Glasgow. He spent 20 working as a staff journalist, including 10 years at The Sunday Times where he was Scotland Editor from 2006-2010 and previously, as deputy to the future Editor of the Insight team, Dean Nelson. Prior to that he was Scottish Political Editor of The Daily Record where he covered the first years of the Scottish Parliament as a lobby correspondent. He is a winner of five national awards for his investigative journalism including twice Reporter of the Year (commended) and twice Daily Newspaper Journalist of the Year (highly commended). As well as working as a writer, Alba also runs a successful public relations consultancy, Carlos Alba Media and he has a popular weekly column in The Herald. His debut novel Kane’s Ladder was published by Polygon in 2008 followed, in 2011, by The Songs of Manolo Escobar, described by the Scotsman as “a very good novel, intelligent and moving, rich in significant detail, sometimes funny…sad and compassionate in its treatment of failure and inadequacy, yet life-affirming too”. In 2022 his third novel, There’s a Problem with Dad, was published by Ringwood.