Biography & Travel Writing

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

Tall Tales and Wee Stories brings together the very best of Billy's storytelling for...

Our Wild Farming Life is what happens when you follow your dreams of living on the...

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

At the beginning of the 1980s Neil Ansell lived in a series of squats and derelict...

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

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

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

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

The Shipping Forecast has been described as the UK's national lullaby: a source of...

Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and James Boswell's Journal...

Thomas Telford, the son of a shepherd, was born in Westerkirk, Scotland in 1757. At the...