Biography & Travel Writing

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

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...

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...

This is a fascinating combination of biographical material about the great Scottish...

The Outer Hebrides is an island archipelago on the remotest north-western periphery of...

Mairi Hedderwick embarks on a six-month-long journey to 40 islands from Arran to Lewis,...

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

A fascinating look into the history and landscape of the Hebridean Islands. Madeleine...

Reflecting on family, identity and nature, Belonging is a personal memoir about what it...

The discovery of a long-forgotten physic garden and the restoration of an old weathered...