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...

The border between England and Scotland is rich in history. It has been the site of...

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...

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...

From his home deep in a Scottish glen, John Lister-Kaye has watched and come to...