Francine Toon

Francine Toon’s debut novel Pine was a Sunday Times bestseller and number one Times bestseller. It won the 2020 McIlvanney Prize, was shortlisted for Bloody Scotland Debut Prize and longlisted for the Highland Book Prize and te Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award.


Her poetry, written as Francine Elena, has appeared in The Sunday Times, The Best British Poetry 2013 and 2015 anthologies and Poetry London, among other places. Her short story ‘Ghost Kitchen’ was published in the anthology Of The Flesh.