Biography & Travel Writing

Adventure, memoir, storytelling and celebration of all things maritime meet in...

Wedlock is the remarkable story of the Countess of Strathmore and her marriage to...

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...

Night Falls on Ardnamurchan has become a classic account of the life and death of a...

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...

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...

Memoirs of a Highland Lady is one of the most famous memoirs ever written. Since its...