Biography & Travel Writing

In Wild Winter, John D. Burns, bestselling author of The Last Hillwalker and Bothy...

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

In 2017, holed up in a hotel room, feverish, despondent and aimless, Iain Maloney...

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

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

Following the tracks, holloways, drove-roads and sea paths that form part of a vast...

When James Pope-Hennessy began his work on Queen Mary's official biography, it opened...

Desperate to connect with his native Galloway, Patrick Laurie plunges into work on his...

For nearly forty years John Wilson travelled the length and breadth of Scotland as a...

In Fat Girl Best Friend, Sarah Grant takes the reader on a pop culture voyage which...

In 'Hebridean Sharker' Tex Geddes describes his exploits during the 1950s as a hunter...

In May 1933 Margaret Leigh took over the tenancy of Achnabo farm, in a beautiful corner...