Biography & Travel Writing

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

A powerful journey of sea and self, trial and hope on the islands of Shetland On the...

The destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in December...

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...

The classic story of Robert Blair Mayne, late commanding officer of the first Special...

In 1773, James Boswell made a long-planned journey across the Scottish Highlands with...

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...

Mollie Hughes has explored some of the wildest environments on earth, from the top of...

CROWDIE AND CREAM: Peopled with characters like Great Aunt Rachel, 'built like a...

To know Sir Walter Scott as a man is as delightful and fruitful an experience as to...