Biography & Travel Writing

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

In this critically-acclaimed fictional memoir of Sir Walter Scott, Allan Massie...

This is the story of how one man, with a bit of help from his friends, created a...

Columba is one of the best known and most well documented figures in Celtic...

Hugh Miller was born in 1802 in Cromarty, Ross-shire. He started his working life as a...

This book tells the remarkable story of Edward Tull-Warnock. An orphan adopted by a...

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

Neil Ansell walks in some of the most remote parts of Britain, the Scottish Highlands,...

In an old wooden sloop, Philip Marsden plots a course north from his home in Cornwall....

At the start of 2020, Grant McIntyre was a fit and healthy 49-year-old consultant and...

The islands of the Outer Hebrides are home to some of the most remote and spectacular...

St Columba is one of the most important figures in the early history of the British...