Biography & Travel Writing

This is a story about uncovering the things that really matter, and discovering what...

A lively, at time hilarious, first-hand account of a lighthouse keeper's life in the...

The Gaelic pharmacy was rich, the sources of which lay almost entirely in nature and...

Fifty years ago Gavin Maxwell went to live in an abandoned house on a shingle beach on...

This title has been revised, with Internet links offering opportunities to hear the...

In telling the story of Bonnie Prince Charlie, this book, unusually, places his...

A few years ago, Annie Worsley traded a busy life in academia to take on a...

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

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...

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...