Model Citizens

Model Citizens is a dazzling novel, combining the imaginative boldness and emotional clarity of Daniel Shand’s previous work with a torrent of provocative ideas, and a tremendously broad satirical scope. This is fiction that’s equal to the strange times ahead. * Edmund Gordon, author of award-winning The Invention of Angela Carter *All this rich world-building constructs a framework for sharp questions about consciousness, identity and death, played out against the threat of an imminent and apocalyptic end to the comfortable, if pressured, existence Shand’s characters have grown to depend on… [it has] the pace and dynamism of a thriller, the metaphysical curiosity of the best science fiction and some judiciously-planted charges of wry humour… his social commentary is funny and on target * The Herald *Shand has fashioned a gripping and original story - and he writes like a dream * The Times *A consumerist hellscape is brilliantly evoked … the cloned self as ultimate consumer product is a compelling idea and Shand has such fun with it that the reader gets carried along * Irish Times *

Daniel Shand’s debut novel, Fallow, won the Betty Trask Prize. His second book, Crocodile, was shortlisted for the Encore Prize for Best Second Novel.

His short fiction has been published widely ( New Writing Scotland, Gutter, 404 INK, Popshot) and in 2016, he was the winner of the Saltire Society International Travel Bursary for Literature. In 2021, he was the Jessie Kesson Fellow at Moniack Mhor.

Daniel has lived in and around Edinburgh since 2011, where he teaches at Napier University.