Biography & Travel Writing

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Thoroughly revised and expanded from the 2012 edition (twice the length, almost double...

In this best-selling biography of John Knox, Rosalind K. Marshall traces the life of...

In May 1933 Margaret Leigh took over the tenancy of Achnabo farm, in a beautiful corner...

For many years George Mackay Brown wrote a weekly column in 'The Orcadian', and this...

In August 1956 a young shepherd, his wife, two-year-old daughter and ten-day-old son...

Margaret Tudor, the elder sister of her more famous brother Henry VIII, is the single...

Who'd have thought a missing bacon rasher and a teaspoon would play a part in advancing...

Sue Reid Sexton travels solo in a tiny campervan and uses it as a creative space and...

When environmental journalist Marianne Brown arrived in Voe, Shetland, to attend the...

Memoirs of a Highland Lady is one of the most famous memoirs ever written. Since its...

In this masterpiece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the...