Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

He studied at Kilmarnock Academy and later at the University of Glasgow after which he worked as an English teacher between 1960 and 1975. He was the narrator of the BBC Scotland football documentary Only a Game? in 1986 and the official history of Celtic football club in 1988. ISBN 978-0-340-65737-9.

William McIlvanney (born on 25 November 1936 in Kilmarnock Ayrshire Scotland) is a writer of crime stories novels and poetry.