Biography & Travel Writing

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...

Part travelogue, part memoir this book is a unique and affectionate portrait of 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...

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

Scott only embarked on his literary career in early middle age. In the face of constant...

John Gregorson Campbell (1834-91) was one of the most outstanding folklorists working...