Biography & Travel Writing

In her late twenties, poet Jen Hadfield moved to Shetland to make a new life. Here, in...

Margaret Fay Shaw’s life spans a century of change. Orphaned at 11 she left home and...

Discover one man’s journey to cold water swimming, and the triumph of the human spirit...

'I never set out to take the lead. It just happened - like MND itself. But we are...

In his first full autobiography the award-winning actor and bestselling author of...

This is the remarkable story of Donald Caskie, minister of the Scots Kirk in Paris at...

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

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

Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years, is terminally ill,...

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

This is Glasgow journalist Cliff Hanley’s sparkling, unsentimental and uproariously...

Thomas Telford, the son of a shepherd, was born in Westerkirk, Scotland in 1757. At the...