Biography & Travel Writing

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Alexander Selkirk, arguably the most famous castaway in history, was born in Lower...

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...

The American-born folklorist and musician Margaret Fay Shaw's passion for the Hebrides...

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