Biography & Travel Writing

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

Growing up on a farm in the north of Scotland could be both rewarding and challenging....

Columba is one of the best known and most well documented figures in Celtic...

A memoir and investigation exploring loss, community and the climate crisis in the...

One of very few books available on Moidart in the north-west of Scotland, it evokes the...

In 1944, Glasgow received one of the greatest gifts ever made to any city in the world:...

Part travelogue, part memoir this book is a unique and affectionate portrait of a...

Born into poverty in the Scottish Border country in 1757, Thomas Telford rose to become...

In the 1930s, the writer and poet, Nan Shepherd was one of North-East Scotland's best...

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

A bothy is a remote hut in the wilderness that you can’t reserve, with no electricity,...

Anne Cholawo was a typical 80s career girl working in a busy London advertising agency,...