Canongate

1957. Sonny is working on a whaling ship in the South Atlantic, reckoning with the most...

A formidable follow up to her award-winning debut poetry collection, Len Pennie's...

And I have done more than just simply get by So much more than escape or survive...

With great lyricism, Anna Fleming charts two parallel journeys: learning the craft of...

At the age of thirty, Amy Liptrot finds herself washed up back home on Orkney. Standing...

Faced with a choice between a harsh farming life and the world of books and learning,...

In To the Island of Tides, Alistair Moffat travels to - and through the history of -...

'The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain' Guardian In this...

Shetland: a place of sheep and soil, of harsh weather, close ties and an age-old way of...

Join Alistair Moffat as he walks the forgotten paths of Scotland. Roman roads,...

Nan Shepherd's subtle prose is matched with intense and memorable descriptions of the...

It is 1973 and Peter Hill, his head filled with the Vietnam War, Frank Zappa, Jack...