About Peter Ross
Peter Ross was a writer.
Peter Ross is a Scottish journalist and non-fiction author based in Glasgow. He won a Scottish Press Award for A Tomb with a View and was a finalist for the Orwell Prize for Journalism in 2015. A Tomb With a View and Upon a White Horse have both been adapted as BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.
His work has appeared in publications including The Guardian, The Times, National Geographic Traveler, Smithsonian Magazine and Boston Review.
Ross lives in Glasgow.
Upon a White Horse was named a Radio 4 Book of the Week and named a best book of 2025 by the Financial Times, The Scotsman, and Country Life.
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