Biography & Travel Writing

His name and image are everywhere - from Bank of Scotland fivers to the bizarre...

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

This is Glasgow journalist Cliff Hanley’s sparkling, unsentimental and uproariously...

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

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

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

This is the fascinating story of a man, John Morton Boyd, who flung himself at life and...

Thoroughly revised and expanded from the 2012 edition (twice the length, almost double...

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

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

Christina MacDonald MacQueen (1884–1959) was born on St Kilda and grew up there at the...

Book by Samuel Johnson, published in 1775. The Journey was the result of a three-month...