Biography & Travel Writing

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

This is the first biography of linen manufacturer William Sandeman (1722-1790), a...

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

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

The British Isles are an Archipelago made up of two large islands and some 6289 smaller...

George's memory is inseparable from Orkney, where he was born the youngest child of a...

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

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

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

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

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be given your own remote islands?...

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