Biography & Travel Writing

This is the first biography of Jean Gordon, who is best known as the first wife of the...

John Gregorson Campbell (1834-91) was one of the most outstanding folklorists working...

Desperate to connect with his native Galloway, Patrick Laurie plunges into work on his...

In his first full-length autobiography, comedy legend and national treasure Billy...

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

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

Calum MacLeod had lived on the northern point of Raasay since his birth in 1911. He...

The story of the vivacious, confident and striking Sheila Chisholm. From meeting her...

Paul Murton has long had a love of the Viking north - the island groups of Orkney and...

There are strange relics hidden across Scotland’s landscape: forgotten places that are...

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

In her late twenties, poet Jen Hadfield moved to Shetland to make a new life. Here, in...