Biography & Travel Writing

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

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...

In his first full-length autobiography, comedy legend and national treasure Billy...

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

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

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

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

Mike Edwards journeys across America to each of the five settlements which bear the...