The Author Jimmy Docherty

Jimmy Docherty was born in Bellshill, Scotland on the 22nd July 1976, and as he recalls, it was a particulary long birth. He spent most of his childhood kicking cans around streets in Coatbridge until eventually he decided to do something with his life, and bought himself a football. Having then established beyond all doubt that the object of the game was not to kick the football at cans around the streets of Coatbridge, Jimmy retired from the soccer scene altogether. After leaving school, Jimmy studied Film, TV and Radio Production in Glasgow. Upon graduation he worked on a freelance basis for various broadcast companies before being asked to join Scotland's largest commercial radio station, Radio Clyde, in 1997, for a bet. Jimmy works with Radio Clyde in Glasgow on many national radio campaigns with household names such as Martin Clunes, Johnny Vegas, Ruby Wax, Denise Van Outen, Julian Clarey and many more! Several TV commercials have also come from the pen of Jimmy. He also claims to have written many literary masterpieces which we can't name specifically, as the real authors might take legal action. His first childrens novel `The Global Art Grab' (the first in a series of six novels), was published in Nov 2003, and charts the adventures of the Gadget Gang, a family of investigators, Chuck, Brad and Laura and is set in Hong Kong. Jimmy describes it as a book "inspired by a dream, and written in a 2 year rush of blood to the head". The second book in the series`The Tattan Howman Trail' about the world's biggest internet bank robbery will be published in April 2004. Jimmy is getting married to his childhood sweetheart Lynn, in August of this year, after finally raising enough cash to persuade her. They live in Coatbridge, and have no dogs.