After working in London for a few years Dominic Cooper moved first to Iceland and then to Sweden. From there he went to the Isle of Mull on the West Coast of Scotland—and it was here that, drawing inspiration from the landscape, he wrote his first novel, The Dead of Winter, which went on to win him the Somerset Maugham Award. From Mull he moved to Edinburgh where he undertook a training in horology. Meanwhile his second novel, Sunrise, appeared a couple of years later, after which he published Men at Axlir and The Horn Fellow. It was at around the time of the latter that he returned to the West Coast of Scotland where he has lived ever since, working as a restorer of clocks and watches.
MEN AT AXLIR
His tragic tale is deeply compelling.
MEN AT AXLIR
Dominic Cooper has us in his thrall…a powerful talent.
MEN AT AXLIR
With this gripping, yet sensitive and evocative novel, Mr Cooper may fairly be said to have arrived…. Fair to say that its steely elegance recalls the great master of this sort of writing, Stevenson himself.
THE HORN FELLOW
Cooper’s dynamic and luminous use of language….
THE HORN FELLOW
…powerful and haunting….
THE DEAD OF WINTER
That it’s possible to be completely original within the confines of formal fiction is demonstrated with great force by Dominic Cooper’s outstanding first novel.
THE HORN FELLOW
Mr Cooper is an original and the power of his imagination owes nothing to anybody else.
SUNRISE
Yielding man and unyielding nature are compellingly done.