Biography & Travel Writing

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

A seasonal meander through the wilds of Scotland. From First Footing to Samhain,...

Donald MacDonald, “Dòmhnall Ghilleasbuig Sorcha”, was born on 2 February 1897 on the...

In August 1956 a young shepherd, his wife, two-year-old daughter and ten-day-old son...

When the producer of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo suddenly fell ill in 1995,...

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

A farmer's daughter from Galloway in south-west Scotland, Jane went to work at the...

Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that...

This work looks at the everyday life of John Barrington, a shepherd to over 750...

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

Victoria Whitworth began wild swimming in the seas of Orkney to escape her failing...

When James Pope-Hennessy began his work on Queen Mary's official biography, it opened...