Biography & Travel Writing

Scotland is a place packed with stories, but they aren’t all of ghosts, kelpies or...

Thomas Telford's genius is reflected in the variety and great technical skill of his...

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

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

Told from his son’s persepctive, this book narrates the remarkable true story of how a...

A heart-warming memoir of leaving the city behind to build a new life among the wild...

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

Cianalas: the Gaelic for homesickness, with added melancholy and nostalgia. A yearning...

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

Following a piece of serendipity, Yorkshire Vet, Julian Norton, finds himself working...

Simon Fraser was one of Scotland most notorious and romantic figures. A double-agent...

In an old wooden sloop, Philip Marsden plots a course north from his home in Cornwall....