Biography & Travel Writing

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...

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...

Catherine Munro transforms her life when she moves to Shetland to study the hardy...

This is the first biography of Jean Gordon, who is best known as the first wife of the...

Margaret Tudor, the elder sister of her more famous brother Henry VIII, is the single...

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