Biography & Travel Writing

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

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

The Outer Hebrides is an island archipelago on the remotest north-western periphery of...

Mairi Hedderwick embarks on a six-month-long journey to 40 islands from Arran to Lewis,...

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

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

As a barefoot lad in the Outer Hebrides, Bill Innes dreamed the impossible dream of...

This is a fascinating combination of biographical material about the great Scottish...

In telling the story of Bonnie Prince Charlie, this book, unusually, places his...

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

The discovery of a long-forgotten physic garden and the restoration of an old weathered...

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