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.
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Awards and recognition
A Tomb with a View was named a book of the year by the Financial Times, i, and Stylist.
Steeple Chasing was a Sunday Times bestseller and Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month.
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.
Books
Ross, Peter (2014). Daunderlust: Dispatches from Unreported Scotland. Sandstone Press. ISBN 978-1908737762.
Ross, Peter (2017). The Passion of Harry Bingo: Further Dispatches from Unreported Scotland. Sandstone Press. ISBN 978-1910985816.
Ross, Peter (2020). A Tomb With a View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards. Headline. ISBN 978-1-472-26779-5.
Ross, Peter (2024). Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church. Headline. ISBN 978-1-472-28195-1.
Ross, Peter (2025). Upon a White Horse: Journeys in Ancient Britain and Ireland. Headline. ISBN 978-1-035-41406-2.