Biography & Travel Writing

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

Button Bog is about the power of ‘Story’ and those who keep it alive. For every tale...

In May 1933 Margaret Leigh took over the tenancy of Achnabo farm, in a beautiful corner...

Mona McAlpine's best-selling memoir of her time as the only nurse on Fair Isle,...

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

This is not a guide to the islands of Scotland; it's not a tour to be followed, nor is...

'It's Belfast, 1982, and a seventeen-year-old boy wearing Hai Karate aftershave has an...

Over the course of a year, leading historian and nature writer David Gange kayaked the...

Catherine Munro transforms her life when she moves to Shetland to study the hardy...

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

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

Margaret Tudor, the elder sister of her more famous brother Henry VIII, is the single...