Biography & Travel Writing

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...

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...

Dan Boothby had been drifting for more than twenty years, without the pontoons of...

There are strange relics hidden across Scotland’s landscape: forgotten places that are...

Kellan MacInnes really needs to get away. Newly divorced, HIV-positive, flat broke and...

In August 1956 a young shepherd, his wife, two-year-old daughter and ten-day-old son...