Biography & Travel Writing

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

'It's Belfast, 1982, and a seventeen-year-old boy wearing Hai Karate aftershave has an...

Tall Tales and Wee Stories brings together the very best of Billy's storytelling for...

A farmer's daughter from Galloway in south-west Scotland, Jane went to work at the...

At the age of thirty, Amy Liptrot finds herself washed up back home on Orkney. Standing...

They say that being a good doctor boils down to just four things: Shut up, listen, know...

This is the charming and poignant account of twenty-five years spent in Orkney. After...

Simon Fraser was one of Scotland most notorious and romantic figures. A double-agent...

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

The classic story of Robert Blair Mayne, late commanding officer of the first Special...

Over the course of a year, leading historian and nature writer David Gange kayaked the...

In 1938 John Lorne Campbell bought the Hebridean isle of Canna. He wanted to prevent it...