Biography & Travel Writing

Ken Smith has spent the past four decades in the Scottish Highlands. He lives alone,...

This is the charming and poignant account of twenty-five years spent in Orkney. After...

One of the greatest travellers in Scotland, Martin Martin was also a native Gaelic...

Thomas Telford's name is familiar; his story less so. Born in 1757 in the Scottish...

When Malcolm Alexander saw the job advert, 'urgent: island doctor needed', he applied...

In 1938 John Lorne Campbell bought the Hebridean isle of Canna. He wanted to prevent it...

At the age of thirty, Amy Liptrot finds herself washed up back home on Orkney. Standing...

They say that being a good doctor boils down to just four things: Shut up, listen, know...

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

Carol Fox was a lawyer until 2015, best known in Scotland for successfully fighting...

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

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