Biography & Travel Writing

This is a new absorbing collection of miscellaneous writings on Scotland's wild area....

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

A powerful journey of sea and self, trial and hope on the islands of Shetland On the...

Christina MacDonald MacQueen (1884–1959) was born on St Kilda and grew up there at the...

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...

Neil Ansell walks in some of the most remote parts of Britain, the Scottish Highlands,...

Thanks to Shakespeare, the name Macbeth has become a byword for political ambition...

Jaz McCann knew the hunger strikers and recalls his life in the IRA, the 17 years...

The northern parish of Assynt boasts some of the most spectacular scenery in Britain....

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

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