Biography & Travel Writing

In his first full autobiography the award-winning actor and bestselling author of...

A Croft in the Hills, first published in 1960, is now acknowledged as a classic among...

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

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...

'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...

From conducting farm animal caesarean sections in the early hours to missing family...

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

Ken Smith has spent the past four decades in the Scottish Highlands. He lives alone,...

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...